[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: 20CFR615.1]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 615--EXTENDED BENEFITS IN THE FEDERAL-STATE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 615.1  Purpose.

    The regulations in this part are issued to implement the ``Federal-
State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970'' as it has been 
amended, which requires, as a condition of tax offset under the Federal 
Unemployment Tax Act (26 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.), that a State unemployment 
compensation law provide for the payment of extended unemployment 
compensation during periods of high unemployment to eligible individuals 
as prescribed in the Act. The benefits provided under State law, in 
accordance with the Act and this part, are hereafter referred to as 
Extended Benefits,

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and the program is referred to as the Extended Benefit Program.