2005 Minnesota Statutes - 268.131 — Reciprocal unemployment benefit arrangements.

     268.131 Reciprocal unemployment benefit arrangements. 


    Subdivision 1.    Cooperation with other state and federal 
 government.  (a) The commissioner shall participate in 
 reciprocal arrangements with other states and the federal 
 government, or both, for the payment of unemployment benefits on 
 the basis of combining an applicant's wages and employment 
 covered under this law with wages and employment covered under 
 the unemployment insurance programs of other states or the 
 federal government that include provisions for applying the base 
 period of a single state law to an account involving the 
 combining of an applicant's wages and employment and avoiding 
 the duplicate use of wages by reason of such combining.  No 
 reciprocal arrangement shall be entered into unless it contains 
 provisions for reimbursements to the trust fund, by the other 
 state or the federal government, for unemployment benefits paid 
 from the trust fund to applicants based upon wages and 
 employment covered under the laws of the other state or the 
 federal government. 


    (b) On any reciprocal arrangement, the wages paid an 
 applicant from employment covered under an unemployment 
 insurance program of another state or of the federal government, 
 shall be considered wages from covered employment for the 
 purpose of determining the applicant's rights to unemployment 
 benefits under the Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Law. 


    Subd. 2.    Cooperation with foreign governments.  The 
 commissioner is authorized to enter into or cooperate in 
 arrangements whereby facilities and services provided under the 
 Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Law and facilities and services 
 provided under the unemployment insurance program of any foreign 
 government, may be used for the taking of applications for 
 unemployment benefits and continued biweekly requests and the 
 payment of unemployment benefits under this law or under a 
 similar law of a foreign government.  


    HIST: (4337-31) Ex1936 c 2 s 11; 1937 c 306 s 8; 1939 c 443 s 
 9; 1941 c 554 s 10; 1943 c 650 s 8; 1945 c 376 s 10; 1947 c 432 
 s 8-10; 1965 c 45 s 45; 1969 c 9 s 64; 1971 c 942 s 13; 1979 c 
 181 s 16; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 209 art 2 s 1; 1996 c 417 s 31; 
 1997 c 66 s 79; 1998 c 265 s 33-35,45; 1999 c 107 s 66; 2000 c 
 343 s 4; 2001 c 175 s 45,52; 1Sp2003 c 3 art 2 s 20