(A)The following
definitions shall be used to govern the Ohio department of job and family
services in its administrative cooperation with other states that have adopted
a similar regulation for the payment of benefits to interstate claimants.
(B)As used in
rules 4141-31-01 to 4141-31-10 of the Administrative Code unless the context
clearly requires otherwise:
(1)"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.
(2)"Interstate
claimant" means an individual who files an interstate claim for benefits
under the unemployment insurance law of a "liable state," "agent
state" or directly with the "liable state." The term
"interstate claimant" shall not include any individual who
customarily commutes across state lines from a residence in one state to work
in a liable state unless the Ohio department of job and family services finds
that this exclusion would create undue hardship on such claimants in specified
areas.
(3)"State"
includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin islands.
(4)"Agent
state" means any state from or through which an individual files an
interstate claim for benefits against another state.
(5)"Liable
state" means any state against which an individual files, from or through
another state, an interstate claim for benefits.
(6)"Benefits"
means the compensation payable to an individual, with respect to the
individual's unemployment, under the unemployment insurance law of any state.
(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)Interstate
benefit rules 4141-31-01 to 4141-31-10 of the Administrative Code shall apply
to claims taken in and for Canada.
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates: 8/24/2023 and 08/24/2028
Certification: CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY
Date: 08/24/2023
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 4141.13
Rule Amplifies: 4141.42
Prior Effective Dates: 07/03/1986, 05/29/1990, 12/14/1999,
01/15/2001, 02/22/2004, 01/28/2016