[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR603.1]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 603--INCOME AND ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION SYSTEM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 603.1  Purpose.

    (a) Section 2651 of Public Law 98-369 (the Deficit Reduction Act of 
1984) amended title XI of the Social Security Act to include a 
requirement that States have an income and eligibility verification 
system in effect which would be used in verifying eligibility for, and 
the amount of, benefits available under several Federally assisted 
programs including the Federal-State unemployment compensation program. 
The Act requires that employers in each State make quarterly wage 
reports to a State agency, which may be the State unemployment 
compensation agency, and that wage information and benefit information 
obtained from other agencies be used in verifying eligibility for 
benefits. The requirement of quarterly wage reporting may be waived if 
the Secretary of Labor (in consultation with the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services and the Secretary of Agriculture) determines the State 
has in effect an alternative system which is as effective and timely as 
quarterly wage reporting for the purposes of providing employment 
related income and eligibility data.
    (b) Section 2651(d) of Public Law 98-396 added a new section 303(f) 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 503(f)), to provide that the 
agency charged with the administration of the State unemployment 
compensation law shall provide that information shall be requested and 
exchanged for purposes of income and eligibility verification in 
accordance with a State system which meets the requirements of section 
1137 of the Social Security Act, as added by Public Law 98-369. The 
regulations in this part are issued to implement this requirement.