23-644

23-644. Reciprocal arrangements

A. The department may enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly
authorized agencies of other states or of the federal government, or both, whereby:

1. Services performed by an individual for a single employing unit for which
services are customarily performed in more than one state shall be deemed services
performed entirely within any one of the states in which any part of the individual's
service is performed, or in which the individual has his residence, or in which the
employing unit maintains a place of business, provided there is in effect, as to such
services, an election, approved by the agency charged with the administration of the
state's unemployment compensation law, pursuant to which all services performed by the
individual for such employing unit are deemed to be performed entirely within such state.

2. Potential rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation
laws of one or more states or under one or more such laws of the federal government, or
both, may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate
agency upon terms which the department finds will be fair and reasonable as to all
affected interests and will not result in any substantial loss to the fund.

3. The department shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of benefits
on the basis of combining an individual's wages and employment covered under this chapter
with his wages and employment covered under the unemployment compensation laws of other
states which are approved by the United States secretary of labor in consultation with
the state unemployment compensation agencies as reasonably calculated to assure the
prompt and full payment of benefits in such situations and which include provisions for
applying the base period of a single state law to a claim involving the combining of an
individual's wages and employment covered under two or more state unemployment
compensation laws, and avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment by reason of
such combining.

4. Contributions due under this chapter with respect to wages for insured work
shall for the purposes of collection of contributions be deemed to have been paid to the
fund as of the date payment was made as contributions therefor under another state or
federal unemployment compensation law, but no such arrangement shall be entered into
unless it contains provisions for reimbursement to the fund of such contributions and the
actual earnings thereon as the department finds will be fair and reasonable as to all
affected interests.

B. Reimbursements paid from the fund pursuant to paragraph 3 of subsection A of
this section shall be deemed benefits for the purpose of sections 23-701 through 23-704
and sections 23-779, 23-780 and 23-782. The department may make to other state or
federal agencies and receive from other state or federal agencies, reimbursements from or
to the fund in accordance with arrangements entered into pursuant to subsection A of this
section.

C. Since the administration of this chapter and of other state and federal
unemployment compensation and public employment service laws will be promoted by
cooperation between this state and such other states and the appropriate federal agencies
in exchanging services, and making available facilities and information, the department
may make such investigations, secure and transmit such information, make available such
services and facilities and exercise such of the other powers provided in this chapter
with respect to the administration of this chapter as it deems necessary or appropriate
to facilitate the administration of any such unemployment compensation or public
employment service law, and in like manner, may accept and utilize information, services
and facilities made available to this state by the agency charged with the administration
of any such other unemployment compensation or public employment service law.

D. To the extent permissible under the laws and constitution of the United States,
the department may enter into or cooperate in arrangements whereby facilities and
services provided under this chapter and facilities and services provided under the
unemployment compensation law of a foreign government may be utilized for the taking of
claims and the payment of benefits under the employment security law of this state or
under a similar law of such government.