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Shore towns target unemployment benefits for seasonal workers
Grumblings about people who manipulate the New Jersey unemployment system and collect unemployment checks while surfing in Hawaii are not new.
What is new is the source of some recent complaints.
Two Cape May county mayors want the state to refine its unemployment system, so seasonal workers at the Jersey shore are not allowed to collect. If those workers are bounced out of the system, Cape May Point — the fourth smallest town in New Jersey with a year-round population of 249 — could save $15,000 a year, according to Mayor Carl Schupp. (Stilwell, Gannett)
