In Re Shuler

The appellants assign as error the judgment of the superior court that supplemental employment benefits from the trust fund set up by their employer are deductible (as wages) from the State unemployment insurance benefits due laid-off employees under Chapter 96, General Statutes of North Carolina.

As a basis for enacting Chapter 96, the North Carolina General Assembly declared: “Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this State . .. The achievement of social security requires protection against •this greatest hazard of…