[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:

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                                           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
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                            Intrastate Claims

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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

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                            Interstate Claims

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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
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\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.