96.20 RECIPROCAL BENEFIT ARRANGEMENTS.
1. The department is hereby authorized to enter into arrangements
with the appropriate agencies of other states, or a contiguous
country with which the United States has an agreement with respect to
unemployment compensation or the federal government whereby potential
rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation
laws of several states or under such a law of the federal government,
or both, may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through
a single appropriate agency under 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.
2. The department may enter into arrangements with the
appropriate agencies of other states, or a contiguous country with
which the United States has an agreement with respect to unemployment
compensation or of the federal government (a) whereby wages or
services, upon the basis of which an individual may become entitled
to benefits under the unemployment compensation law of another state
or of the federal government, shall be deemed to be wages for
employment by employers for the purposes of section 96.3 and section
96.4, subsection 5; provided such other state agency or agency of the
federal government has agreed to reimburse the fund for such portion
of benefits paid under this chapter upon the basis of such wages or
services as the department finds will be fair and reasonable as to
all affected interests, and (b) whereby the department will reimburse
other state or federal agencies charged with the administration of
unemployment compensation laws with such reasonable portion of
benefits, paid under the law of any such other states or of the
federal government upon the basis of employment or wages for
employment by employers, as the department finds will be fair and
reasonable as to all affected interests. Reimbursements so payable
shall be deemed to be benefits for the purposes of section 96.3,
subsection 5, paragraph "a", and section 96.9, but no
reimbursement so payable shall be charged against any employer's
account for the purposes of section 96.7, unless wages so transferred
are sufficient to establish a valid claim in Iowa, and that such
charges shall not exceed the amount that would have been charged on
the basis of a valid claim. The department is hereby authorized to
make to other state or federal agencies and receive from such other
state or federal agencies, reimbursements from or to the fund, in
accordance with arrangements pursuant to this section. The
department shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of
compensation on the basis of combining an individual's wages and
employment covered under this Act with the individual's 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
compensation 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
duplication use of wages and employment by reason of such combining.
3. The department is hereby authorized to enter into agreements
with the appropriate agencies of other states, or a contiguous
country with which the United States has an agreement with respect to
unemployment compensation or the federal government administering
unemployment compensation laws to provide that contributions on wages
for services performed by an individual in more than one state for
the same employer may be paid to the appropriate agency of one state.
96.20 RECIPROCAL BENEFIT ARRANGEMENTS.
1. The department is hereby authorized to enter into arrangements
with the appropriate agencies of other states, or a contiguous
country with which the United States has an agreement with respect to
unemployment compensation or the federal government whereby potential
rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation
laws of several states or under such a law of the federal government,
or both, may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through
a single appropriate agency under 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.
2. The department may enter into arrangements with the
appropriate agencies of other states, or a contiguous country with
which the United States has an agreement with respect to unemployment
compensation or of the federal government (a) whereby wages or
services, upon the basis of which an individual may become entitled
to benefits under the unemployment compensation law of another state
or of the federal government, shall be deemed to be wages for
employment by employers for the purposes of section 96.3 and section
96.4, subsection 5; provided such other state agency or agency of the
federal government has agreed to reimburse the fund for such portion
of benefits paid under this chapter upon the basis of such wages or
services as the department finds will be fair and reasonable as to
all affected interests, and (b) whereby the department will reimburse
other state or federal agencies charged with the administration of
unemployment compensation laws with such reasonable portion of
benefits, paid under the law of any such other states or of the
federal government upon the basis of employment or wages for
employment by employers, as the department finds will be fair and
reasonable as to all affected interests. Reimbursements so payable
shall be deemed to be benefits for the purposes of section 96.3,
subsection 5, paragraph "a", and section 96.9, but no
reimbursement so payable shall be charged against any employer's
account for the purposes of section 96.7, unless wages so transferred
are sufficient to establish a valid claim in Iowa, and that such
charges shall not exceed the amount that would have been charged on
the basis of a valid claim. The department is hereby authorized to
make to other state or federal agencies and receive from such other
state or federal agencies, reimbursements from or to the fund, in
accordance with arrangements pursuant to this section. The
department shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of
compensation on the basis of combining an individual's wages and
employment covered under this Act with the individual's 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
compensation 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
duplication use of wages and employment by reason of such combining.
3. The department is hereby authorized to enter into agreements
with the appropriate agencies of other states, or a contiguous
country with which the United States has an agreement with respect to
unemployment compensation or the federal government administering
unemployment compensation laws to provide that contributions on wages
for services performed by an individual in more than one state for
the same employer may be paid to the appropriate agency of one state.
96.20 RECIPROCAL BENEFIT ARRANGEMENTS.
1. The department is hereby authorized to enter into arrangements
with the appropriate agencies of other states, or a contiguous
country with which the United States has an agreement with respect to
unemployment compensation or the federal government whereby potential
rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation
laws of several states or under such a law of the federal government,
or both, may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through
a single appropriate agency under 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.
2. The department may enter into arrangements with the
appropriate agencies of other states, or a contiguous country with
which the United States has an agreement with respect to unemployment
compensation or of the federal government (a) whereby wages or
services, upon the basis of which an individual may become entitled
to benefits under the unemployment compensation law of another state
or of the federal government, shall be deemed to be wages for
employment by employers for the purposes of section 96.3 and section
96.4, subsection 5; provided such other state agency or agency of the
federal government has agreed to reimburse the fund for such portion
of benefits paid under this chapter upon the basis of such wages or
services as the department finds will be fair and reasonable as to
all affected interests, and (b) whereby the department will reimburse
other state or federal agencies charged with the administration of
unemployment compensation laws with such reasonable portion of
benefits, paid under the law of any such other states or of the
federal government upon the basis of employment or wages for
employment by employers, as the department finds will be fair and
reasonable as to all affected interests. Reimbursements so payable
shall be deemed to be benefits for the purposes of section 96.3,
subsection 5, paragraph "a", and section 96.9, but no
reimbursement so payable shall be charged against any employer's
account for the purposes of section 96.7, unless wages so transferred
are sufficient to establish a valid claim in Iowa, and that such
charges shall not exceed the amount that would have been charged on
the basis of a valid claim. The department is hereby authorized to
make to other state or federal agencies and receive from such other
state or federal agencies, reimbursements from or to the fund, in
accordance with arrangements pursuant to this section. The
department shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of
compensation on the basis of combining an individual's wages and
employment covered under this Act with the individual's 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
compensation 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
duplication use of wages and employment by reason of such combining.
3. The department is hereby authorized to enter into agreements
with the appropriate agencies of other states, or a contiguous
country with which the United States has an agreement with respect to
unemployment compensation or the federal government administering
unemployment compensation laws to provide that contributions on wages
for services performed by an individual in more than one state for
the same employer may be paid to the appropriate agency of one state.
