20 C.F.R. § 616.6 Definitions.
Title 20 - Employees' Benefits
These definitions apply for the purpose of this arrangement and the procedures issued to effectuate it. (a) State. “State” includes the States of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. (b) State agency. The agency which administers the unemployment compensation law of a State. (c) Combined-Wage Claim. A claim filed under this arrangement. (d) Combined-Wage Claimant. A claimant who has covered wages under the unemployment compensation law of more than one State and who has filed a claim under this arrangement. (e) Paying State. (1) The State in which a Combined-Wage Claimant files a Combined-Wage Claim, if the claimant qualifies for unemployment benefits in that State on the basis of combined employment and wages. (2) If the State in which a Combined-Wage Claimant files a Combined-Wage Claim is not the Paying State under the criterion set forth in paragraph (e)(1) of this section, or if the Combined-Wage Claim is filed in Canada then the Paying State shall be that State where the Combined-Wage Claimant was last employed in covered employment among the States in which the claimant qualifies for unemployment benefits on the basis of combined employment and wages. (f) Transferring State. A State in which a Combined-Wage Claimant had covered employment and wages in the base period of a paying State, and which transfers such employment and wages to the paying State for its use in determining the benefit rights of such claimant under its law. (g) Employment and wages. “Employment” refers to all services which are covered under the unemployment compensation law of a State, whether expressed in terms of weeks of work or otherwise. “Wages” refers to all remuneration for such employment. (h) Secretary. The Secretary of Labor of the United States. (i) Base period and benefit year. The base period and benefit year applicable under the unemployment compensation law of the paying State. [36 FR 24992, Dec. 28, 1971, as amended at 39 FR 45215, Dec. 31, 1974; 43 FR 2625, Jan. 17, 1978; 71 FR 35514, June 21, 2006]
Title 20: Employees' Benefits
PART 616—INTERSTATE ARRANGEMENT FOR COMBINING EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES
§ 616.6 Definitions.
