Vermont § 1318 - Reciprocal benefit arrangements

§ 1318. Reciprocal benefit arrangements

• (a) The Commissioner is authorized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies
  of other states or the federal government under which potential rights to benefits
  accumulated under the unemployment compensation laws of other states or under federal
  law, or both, may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through a single
  appropriate agency under terms that the Commissioner finds will be fair and reasonable
  to all affected interests and will not result in any substantial loss to the Fund.
  The Commissioner is authorized to reimburse a state or federal agency for benefits
  paid by that agency upon the basis of wages received in employment subject to this
  chapter or to receive from a state or federal agency amounts paid from the Fund upon
  the basis of wages received in employment subject to the laws of the state or to federal
  law. (b) The Commissioner shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of compensation
  on the basis of combining an individual’s wages and employment covered under this
  chapter with the individual’s wages and employment covered under the unemployment
  compensation laws of other states that are approved by the U.S. Secretary of Labor
  in consultation with the state unemployment compensation agencies as reasonably calculated
  to ensure the prompt and full payment of compensation in such a situation and that
  include provisions for: (1) 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 (2) avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment by reason of the combination pursuant
  to subdivision (1) of this subsection (b). (c)(1) Reimbursements paid from the Fund pursuant to this section shall be deemed to be benefits
  for the purposes of this chapter. (2) No charge on account of reimbursements paid pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection
  (c) shall be made to an employer’s experience rating record under subsection 1325(a)
  of this subchapter. (3) Benefits paid from the Fund to an individual, under arrangements entered into pursuant
  to this section, shall not be charged to an employer’s experience rating record under
  subsection 1325(a) of this subchapter when the benefits would not have been payable
  to the individual but for this section because the individual lacked wages in employment
  necessary to qualify for benefits under section 1338 of this subchapter. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 22, eff. March 1, 1961; 1961, No. 210, § 15, eff. July 11, 1961; 1969, No. 189 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 9, 1970; 1971, No. 77, § 2, eff. Dec. 31, 1971; 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 178, eff. July 1, 2024.)