871—24.37(96) Payment of benefits to interstate claimants.
	24.37(1) Section 96.20 of the employment security law of Iowa authorizes the department to enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the federal government, or both. In conformity with this section, the department of workforce development prescribes:
	a. 	Applicability. This regulation shall govern the department in its administrative cooperation with other states adopting a similar regulation for the payment of unemployment insurance benefits to interstate claimants.
	b. 	Definitions. As used in this rule unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
	(1)	“Interstate benefit payment plan.” This is 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.” This is an individual who claims benefits under the unemployment insurance law of one or more liable states. The term interstate claimant shall not include any 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 such a claimant in a specified area.
	(3)	“State.” This includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Canada.
	(4)	“Agent state.” This means any state in which an individual files a claim for benefits from another state.
	(5)	“Liable state.” A liable state is any state against which an individual files, from another state, a claim for benefits.
	(6)	“Benefits.” This is the compensation payable to an individual, with respect to unemployment, under the employment security law of any state.
	(7)	“Week of unemployment.” This is any week of unemployment as defined in the law of the liable state from which benefits with respect to such week are claimed.
	c. 	Registration for work.
	(1)	Each interstate claimant shall be registered for work, through any public employment office in the agent state when and as required by the law, rules, regulations, and procedures of the agent state. Such registration shall be accepted as meeting the registration requirements of the liable state.
	(2)	Each agent state shall duly report to the liable state in question whether each interstate claimant meets the registration requirements of the agent state.
	d. 	Benefit rights of interstate claimants.
	(1)	If a claimant files a claim against any state, and it is determined by such state that the claimant has available benefit credits in such state, then claims shall be filed only against such state as long as benefit credits are available in that state. Thereafter, the claimant may file claims against any other state in which there are available benefit credits.
	(2)	For the purposes of this regulation, benefit credits shall be deemed to be unavailable whenever benefits have been exhausted, terminated, or postponed for an indefinite period or for the entire period in which benefits would otherwise be payable, or whenever benefits are affected by the application of a seasonal restriction. The department will respect the prior adjudication of a liable state if the department is made aware of the decision and will apply the Iowa requalification criteria, unless the claimant has requalified pursuant to the liable state’s requalification criteria.
	(3)	The benefit rights of interstate claimants established by this regulation shall apply only with respect to new claims filed on or after July 5, 1953.
	(4)	The effective date of an interstate claim shall be the Sunday of the week the claim was filed, except if proof is obtained from another state that the claimant filed in that state and it was determined that the claim should have been filed in Iowa.
	e. 	Claim for benefits.
	(1)	Claims for benefits shall be filed by interstate claimants on uniform interstate claim forms or by using the procedures provided by the liable state and in accordance with uniform procedures developed pursuant to the interstate benefit payment plan. Claims shall be filed in accordance with the type of week in use in the agent state. Any adjustments required to fit the type of week used by the liable state shall be made by the liable state on the basis of consecutive claims filed.
	(2)	Reserved.
	f. 	Determination of claims.
	(1)	In connection with each claim filed by an interstate claimant, the agent state shall ascertain and report to the liable state in question such facts relating to the claimant’s availability for work and eligibility for benefits as are readily determinable in and by the agent state.
	(2)	The agent state’s responsibility and authority in connection with the determination of interstate claims shall be limited to investigation and reporting of relevant facts. The agent state shall not refuse to take an interstate claim unless the liable state has a procedure for taking out-of-state claims.
	g. 	Appellate procedure.
	(1)	The agent state shall afford all reasonable cooperation in the taking of evidence and the holding of hearings in connection with appealed interstate benefit claims.
	(2)	With respect to the time limits imposed by the law of a liable state upon the filing of an appeal in connection with a disputed benefit claim, an appeal made by an interstate claimant shall be deemed to have been made and communicated to the liable state on the date when it is received by any qualified representative of the agent state.
	24.37(2) Extended benefits interstate claims. When extended benefits are in effect and a claimant is filing for extended benefits, an eligible individual shall be limited to a maximum of two weeks of the extended benefit entitlement if the individual moves from this state, before or during an extended benefit period triggered by this state’s “on” indicator, to another state in which an extended benefit period is not in effect.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code sections 96.6(1) and 96.29(3).
[ARC 3811C, IAB 5/23/18, effective 6/27/18]