[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 20CFR617.16]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 617_TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE FOR WORKERS UNDER THE TRADE ACT 
OF 1974--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart B_Trade Readjustment Allowances (TRA)
 
Sec. 617.16  Applicable State law.

    (a) What law governs. The applicable State law for any individual, 
for all of the purposes of this part 617, is the State law of the 
State--
    (1) In which the individual is entitled to UI (whether or not the 
individual has filed a claim therefor) immediately following the 
individual's first separation (as defined in paragraph (t)(1) of Sec. 
617.3), or
    (2) If the individual is not so entitled to UI under the State law 
of any State immediately following such first separation, or is entitled 
to UI under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (RRUI), the State 
law of the State in which such first separation occurred.
    (b) Change of law. The State law determined under paragraph (a) of 
this section to be the applicable State law for an individual shall 
remain the applicable State law for the individual until the individual 
becomes entitled to UI under the State law of another State (whether or 
not the individual files a claim therefor).
    (c) UI entitlement. (1) An individual shall be deemed to be entitled 
to UI under a State law if the individual satisfies the base period 
employment and wage qualifying requirements of such State law.
    (2) In the case of a combined-wage claim (Part 616 of this chapter), 
UI entitlement shall be determined under the law of the paying State.
    (3) In case of a Federal UI claim, or a joint State and Federal UI 
claim (Parts 609 and 614 of this Chapter), UI entitlement shall be 
determined under the law of the State which is the applicable State for 
such claims.
    (d) RRUI claimants. If an individual is entitled to UI under the 
Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, the applicable State law for 
purposes of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section is the law of the 
State in which the individual's first qualifying separation occurs.
    (e) Liable State. The State whose State law is determined under this 
section to be the applicable State law for any individual shall be the 
liable State for the individual for all purposes of this part 617. Any 
State other than the liable State shall be an agent State.

[59 FR 932, Jan. 6, 1994]