Benefit Payments
Less Than Half
Unemployment insurance bene
fit payments for November, 1955,
were less than half of what they
were in November, 1954. In other
words, the payments were $264,
953 as compared with $578,654, the
figure for 1954. These figures were
released by the Employment Se
curity Commission.
During the second half of No
vember, 1955, payments were
$179,279, an increase of more than
$109 over the $85,674 for the first
half of the month.
During the month there were
2,881 new applicants for unemploy
ment insurance as compared with
3;037 for the same month a year
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ago. A total of 7,229 new appli
cants for unemployment insurance
for the five months ending Novem
ber 30, is recorded. About 5,738 of
these applicants were eligible for
unemployment benefits.
2,865 of the eligible applicants
in 1955 received 8,423 payments
during the month of November for
for an average of $31.70 per check
as compared with 20,114 payments
for 6,800 applicants in November
of 1954 for an average of $28.80
per check. It would appear, there
fore, from the evidence to date
that the effect of the new law is,
on one hand, to reduce the num
ber of eligible claimants and, on
the other hand, to increase the
average weekly payment per claim
ant. The important factor, how
ever, in reducing benefit payments
for the past five months has been
the decreased number of unem
ployed applying for unemployment
insurance, namely, 7,229 this year
as compared with 10,900 a year
ago—a decrease of about 34%.
Benefit payments for the five
months ended November 30, 1955
were $603,221.23 as compared with
$1,372,583.86 for the same five
months ft year ago, a decrease of
approximately 56%.
Receipts for the five months
ended November 30, 1955 were
$2,361,820.79 as compared with
$2,084,588.13 for the same five
months a year ago.
The balance in the fund on No
vember 30, 1955, is $3,968,083.32.
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