Section 65.139. Definitions

In addition to the words and terms defined in § 61.1 (relating to definitions), the following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

Agent state—A state in which an individual files a claim for benefits from another state.

Benefits—Compensation payable to an individual with respect to the individual’s unemployment, under the unemployment insurance law of a state.

Interstate Benefit Payment Plan—The plan approved by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, under which benefits are payable to unemployed individuals absent from the state in which benefit credits have been accumulated.

Interstate claimant—

(i) An individual who claims benefits under the unemployment insurance law of one or more liable states through the facilities of an agent state.

(ii) The term does not include an individual who customarily commutes from a residence in an agent state to work in a liable state unless the Department finds that this exclusion would create undue hardship on the claimants in specified areas.

Liable state—A state against which an individual files, through another state, a claim for benefits.

State—The term includes Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia.

Week of unemployment—Any week of unemployment as defined in the law of the liable state from which benefits with respect to the week are claimed.

The provisions of this § 65.139 adopted February 11, 2011, effective February 12, 2011, 41 Pa.B. 848.