Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millions of Americans, collecting unemployment checks has become as routine as visits to the water cooler when they were working. Indeed, in many cases compensation checks have been handed out too routinely. They are going not only to people who deserve and desperately need the money, but also to some who do not. Among them: people who work part-time but collect jobless benefits, others who willfully evade work, and still others who make claims under false names and Social Security numbers...
...hardest kind of cheating to detect involves collusion between employers and employees. Caroline K., a 30-year-old Manhattan secretary who was having personal problems, quit her job last year. Her employer, in sympathy with her plight, listed her as fired, thus enabling Caroline to collect $90 a week in unemployment benefits for 65 weeks (in New York, most employees who quit voluntarily are ineligible for jobless benefits). Unemployment officials insisted that she visit prospective employers regularly. But her former boss had deliberately made Caroline difficult to place by saying that her relatively high salary was for work performed...
...they do violate its spirit. In nearly all states, a worker must earn a minimum level of wages and be employed for a specified period, usually six months, before becoming eligible for unemployment compensation. So, some people work exactly that time, then provoke employers to fire them. They collect unemployment compensation for as long as possible, go back to work, then get themselves fired again. Layoffs in seasonal businesses such as the theater may serve the same purpose...
Appeals could prolong the battle for years. But if control of Krug is finally sold, both brothers will prosper. Estimates are that the sale would bring about $40 million, of which both Robert and Peter would each stand to collect $10 million before taxes...
...office." Only half in fun, she says, "After I'm no longer First Lady, I'm going to lobby for a salary for this job. It has long hours and a lot of responsibilities. But I would have it so that a First Lady can't collect unless she works...