It is completely unfair for the Department of Employment Security to prevent an unemployment beneficiary from receiving further education using the threat of withholding unemployment benefits. A recent unemployed person is "forced to choose" between receiving a further education and receiving their unemployment benefits.
This act of pure extortion by the Department of Employment Security lets the former employer "off the hook" for their unemployment contributions, even if the recently unemployed person from their company uses "their own money" to pay for their further education. Preventing the spending of unemployment benefits on additional education essentially undermines the very purpose for which unemployment benefits were originally provided -- finding another job!!!