In re the Claim of Bourne

This case suggests the rising pressure of an aging population upon public unemployment insurance facilities; but the economic and social questions it raises are somewhat broader than the legal point which brings it here.

Claimant is now sixty-seven years old. For twenty-seven years he was employed by the Prudential Insurance Company as an industrial insurance agent. He was an “ honor award winner” of the company. At the end of 1951, when he was sixty-five, he was involuntarily retired. He was then earning $5,000 a year. He did not want to stop work; he was in good health; but the policy of the…