Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 65.1. Definitions.

 In addition to the terms defined in §  61.1 (relating to definitions), the following words and terms, when used in this chapter, 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 employment, under the unemployment insurance law of a state.

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

   Interstate claimant—An individual who claims benefits under the unemployment insurance law of one or more liable states through the facilities of an agent state. 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 Bureau 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.

   Registered for work—When a claimant has appeared at a regularly established public employment office and has completed and signed an Application for Benefits, Form UC-42; and when, upon request, he has furnished that office with the accepted title for the occupations at which he is usually employed.

   Registration for work—When an individual has appeared in person at a public employment office and has furnished that office with his name, usual occupation and correct post office address and has declared his availability for suitable work.

   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 §  65.1 adopted July 1, 1969; amended September 15, 1972, effective September 16, 1972, 2 Pa.B. 1731.

   This section cited in 34 Pa. Code §  65.11 (relating to effective period).