[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: 20CFR640.5] [Page 364] TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PART 640--STANDARD FOR BENEFIT PAYMENT PROMPTNESS--UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION--Table of Contents Sec. 640.5 Criteria for compliance. The criteria in the schedule below shall apply in determining whether, in the administration of a State law, there has been substantial compliance with the provision required by section 303(a)(1) in the issuance of benefit payments to eligible claimants for the first compensable weeks of unemployment in their benefit years: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Percentage of first payments issued--days following end of first compensable week ------------------------------- 14 days, 21 days, waiting nonwaiting 35 days, week week all States States \1\ States ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Intrastate Claims ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Performance to be achieved for the 12- mo. period ending: Mar. 31, 1978......................... 80 80 ........ Mar. 31, 1979......................... \2\ 83 \2\ 83 \2\ 90 Mar. 31, 1980, and thereafter......... 87 87 93 ----------------------------------------- Interstate Claims ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Performance to be achieved for the 12- mo. period ending: Mar. 31, 1978......................... 60 60 ........ Mar. 31, 1979......................... \2\ 65 \2\ 65 \2\ 75 Mar. 31, 1980, and thereafter......... 70 70 78 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ \1\ A nonwaiting week State is any State whose law does not require that a non-compensable period of unemployment be served before the payment of benefits commences. \2\ Beginning with the month following the effective date of this revised regulation. A State will be deemed to comply substantially, as set out in Secs. 640.2(b) and 640.3(b), if its average performance, for the period of review, meets or exceeds the applicable criteria set forth above.