SECTION 240:10-3-26. Payment of benefits to interstate claimants

(a)   Interstate agreement. This Section shall govern the Commission in its administrative cooperation with other states adopting a similar rule for the payment of benefits to interstate claimants.

(b)   Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in this Section, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1)   "Agent state" means any state in which an individual files a claim for benefits from another state.

(2)   "Benefits" means the compensation payable to an individual, with respect to his/her unemployment, under the unemployment insurance law of any state.

(3)   "Interstate benefit payment plan" means the plan approved by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies under which benefits shall be payable to unemployed individuals absent from the state (or states) in which benefit credits have been accumulated.

(4)   "Interstate claimant" means an individual who claims benefits under the unemployment insurance law of one or more liable states through the facilities of an agent state. The term "interstate claimant" shall not include any individual who customarily commutes from a residence in an agent state to work in a liable state unless the Commission finds that this exclusion would create undue hardship on such claimants in specified areas.

(5)   "Liable state" means any state against which an individual files, through another state, a claim for benefits.

(6)   "States" include the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. [40:1-216]

(7)   "Week of unemployment" includes any week of unemployment as defined in the law of the liable state from which benefits with respect to such week are claimed.

(c)   Registration for work.

(1)   Each interstate claimant shall be registered for work, through any public employment office in the agent state when and as required by the law and procedures of the agent state. Such registration shall be accepted as meeting the registration requirements of the liable state.

(2)   Each agent state shall duly report, to the liable state in question, whether each interstate claimant meets the registration requirements of the agent state.

(d)   Canadian claims. Extension of interstate benefit payments will include claims taken in and for Canada. OAC 240:10-3-26 shall apply in all its provisions to claims taken in and for Canada.

[Source: Amended at 24 Ok Reg 1233, eff 5-25-07]