[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: 20CFR616.6]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 616--INTERSTATE ARRANGEMENT FOR COMBINING EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 616.6  Definitions.

    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, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
and includes the Virgin Islands effective on the day after the day on 
which the Secretary approves under section 3304(a) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 3304(a)), an unemployment compensation 
law submitted to the Secretary by the Virgin Islands for approval.
    (b) State agency. The agency which administers the unemployment 
compensation law of a State.
    (c) Combined-Wage Claim. A claim filed under this arrangement.

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    (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 or the Virgin Islands, 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: 
Provided, That, this paragraph (e)(2) shall read as if the Virgin 
Islands was not referred to therein, effective on the day after the day 
on which the Secretary approves under section 3304(a) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 3304(a)), an unemployment compensation 
law submitted to the Secretary by the Virgin Islands for approval.
    (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]