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TN Code § 50-7-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-208. “Employment Office” Defined

 “Employment office” means a free public employment office, or branch of a free public employment office, operated by the United States or by any state of the United States or by a state, province or similar political subdivision of a foreign government.
TN Code § 50-7-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-209. “Fund” Defined

 “Fund” means the unemployment compensation fund established by this chapter, to which all premiums required, and from which all benefits provided under this chapter, shall be paid.
TN Code § 50-7-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-210. “State” and “United States” Defined

 For the purposes of this chapter:   “State” includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands; and   “United States,” when used in a geographical sense, includes the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
TN Code § 50-7-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-211. “Unemployed” Defined

  An individual shall be deemed “unemployed” in any week during which the individual performs no services and with respect to which no wages are payable to the individual, or in any week of less than full-time work if the wages payable to the individual with respect to the week are less than the individual's weekly benefit amount.   The commissioner shall prescribe rules and regulations applicable to unemployed individuals, making distinctions in the procedures as to total unemployment, part total unemployment, partial unemployment of individuals attached to their regular jobs, and other forms of short-time work that the commissioner deems necessary.
TN Code § 50-7-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-212. “Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund” Defined

 “Unemployment compensation administration fund” means the unemployment compensation administration fund established by this chapter, from which regular administrative expenses under this chapter shall be paid.
TN Code § 50-7-214 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-214. “Week” Defined

  “Week” means the period of seven (7) consecutive days that the commissioner prescribes by regulation.   The commissioner may by regulation prescribe that a week shall be deemed to be “in,” “within” or “during” that benefit year that includes the greater part of the week.
TN Code § 50-7-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-215. “Calendar Quarter” Defined

 “Calendar quarter” means the period of three (3) consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31.
TN Code § 50-7-216 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-216. “Weekly Benefit Amount” Defined

 An individual's “weekly benefit amount” means the amount of benefits the individual would be entitled to receive for one (1) week of total unemployment.
TN Code § 50-7-217 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-217. “Benefit Year” Defined

  “Benefit year” with respect to any individual means the fifty-two (52) consecutive week period beginning with the first day of the first week with respect to which the individual first files a valid claim for benefits, and thereafter the fifty-two (52) consecutive week period beginning with the first day of the first week with respect to which the individual next files a valid claim for benefits after the termination of the individual's last preceding benefit year.   The last preceding benefit year shall be a fifty-three (53) week period if fifty-two (52) weeks would result in the overlap of any calendar quarter of the base period of the new benefit year with the same calendar quarter of the base period of the previous benefit year.   Any claim for benefits made in accordance with § 50-7-304(a) shall be deemed to be a “valid claim” for the purposes of subsection (a) if the individual has been paid the wages for insured work required under § 50-7-302(b)(1).
TN Code § 50-7-218 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-218. “Base Period” Defined

 “Base period” means the first four (4) of the last five (5) completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual's benefit year; provided, that if the first quarter of the last five (5) completed calendar quarters was included in the base period applicable to any individual's previous benefit year, the individual's base period shall be the last four (4) completed calendar quarters. For the purposes of establishing a base period in cases involving persons receiving workers' compensation benefits for temporary total disability, the department shall exclude periods of such disability from the base period and determine the base period from the last four (4) completed quarters of work before any such disability.
TN Code § 50-7-219 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 2 - Definitions|§ 50-7-219. “Insured Work” Defined

 “Insured work” means employment covered by this chapter.
TN Code § 50-7-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 4 - Premiums|§ 50-7-401. Payment

  Premiums shall accrue and become payable by each employer for each calendar year in which the employer is subject to this chapter, with respect to wages paid for employment, as defined in § 50-7-207, occurring during the calendar year; provided, that any employer who uses an accrual basis of accounting may report wages when earned so long as the reporting method is consistent. The premiums shall become due and be paid by each employer to the administrator for the fund in accordance with regulations the commissioner prescribes, and shall not be deducted, in whole or in part, from the wages of individuals who perform services for the employer. Neither shall payments in lieu of premiums be deducted in whole or in part from the wages of individuals who perform services for employers making the payments.   In the payment of any premium, a fractional part of a cent shall be disregarded unless it amounts to one half cent (½ ¢) or more, in which case it shall be increased to one cent (1¢).
TN Code § 50-7-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 4 - Premiums|§ 50-7-402. Rate of Premiums

  Each employer shall pay premiums equal to five and one half percent (5.5%) of wages paid by the employer during each calendar year with respect to employment, except as provided in § 50-7-403.   Notwithstanding subsection (a), effective on and after July 1, 1982, any governmental employer referred to in § 50-7-207(b)(3)(A) and (B), who chooses to be a taxpaying, premium paying, employer, as opposed to one who elects to make payments in lieu of premiums, will pay premiums equal to one and one half percent (1.5%) of wages paid by the employer during each calendar year with respect to employment, except as provided in § 50-7-403.
TN Code § 50-7-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 4 - Premiums|§ 50-7-406. Rating System for Reorganized Businesses

 The division of employment security shall attempt to develop a system of rating employers that will ensure that an employer who goes out of business and reorganizes as a new business with substantially the same owners shall not be rated as a new employer, but the business shall retain the same rating it maintained under the old business.
TN Code § 50-7-407 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 4 - Premiums|§ 50-7-407. Continuous Part-Time Employment — “Reimbursing Employer” Defined

  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, if a claimant employed by a reimbursing employer on a continuous part-time basis continues to be employed by the reimbursing employer while separated from other employment and is eligible for benefits, any benefits paid will not be considered attributable to the service with the reimbursing employer.   For the purposes of this section, “reimbursing employer” means an eligible employer who elects to reimburse the state for benefits paid in lieu of premiums, as provided by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, compiled in 26 U.S.C. § 3301 et. seq., or this chapter.
TN Code § 50-7-452 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 4 - Premiums|§ 50-7-452. Including With Employer's Annual Premium Rate Notice a Statement of Benefits Charged to Employer's Experience Rating Account

 By January 1, 2013, at the request of the employer, the department shall begin including with an employer's annual premium rate notice the statement of benefits charged to the employer's experience rating account that affected that annual premium rate. The department shall include on the annual premium rate notice how an employer may opt in to having that additional information included with the notice.
TN Code § 50-7-502 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 5 - Funds|§ 50-7-502. Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund

   There is created in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the unemployment compensation administration fund.   All moneys that are deposited or paid into this fund are appropriated and made available to the commissioner.   All moneys in this fund shall be expended solely for the purpose of defraying the cost of administration of this chapter, and no other purpose whatsoever.   The fund shall consist of all money appropriated and allotted by this state, and all moneys received from the United States, or any agencies of the United States, or from any other source, for that purpose.   All moneys in this fund shall be deposited, administered and disbursed in the same manner and under the same conditions and requirements that are provided by law for other special funds in the state treasury.   Any balances in this fund shall not lapse at any time, but shall be continuously available to the commissioner for expenditure consistent with this chapter.   The moneys received from any agency of the United States, or any other state or agency, as compensation for services or facilities supplied to the agency or agencies shall be paid into this fund on the same basis as expenditures are made for the services or facilities from the fund or account.     All moneys received from the United States secretary of labor or the secretary's successors for the administration of this chapter shall be expended solely for the purposes and in the amounts found necessary by the United States secretary of labor or the secretary's successors, for the proper and efficient administration of this chapter.   It is the policy of this state that any moneys received from the United States secretary of labor or the secretary's predecessors or successors under the Social Security Act, Title III, compiled in 42 U.S.C. § 501 et seq., or any unencumbered balances in the unemployment compensation administration fund as of that date, or any moneys granted after that date to this state pursuant to the Wagner-Peyser Act, compiled in 29 U.S.C. § 49 et seq., or any moneys appropriated and allocated by this state or its political subdivisions, and matched by the moneys granted to this state pursuant to the Wagner-Peyser Act, which, because of any action or contingency, have been lost or have been expended for purposes other than, or in amounts in excess of, those found necessary by the United States secretary of labor or the secretary's successors for the proper administration of the fund, shall be replaced by the state within a reasonable time to the unemployment compensation administration fund for expenditure as provided in subsection (a).
TN Code § 50-7-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 5 - Funds|§ 50-7-503. Unemployment Compensation Special Administrative Fund

   There is created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the “unemployment compensation special administrative fund,” which shall consist of interest collected on delinquent payments pursuant to § 50-7-404(a), the penalty rate payments collected under § 50-7-403(b)(2)(G)(i)(b ), the civil money penalties collected under § 50-7-403(b)(2)(G)(ii), penalties collected in accordance with § 50-7-715(b)(2), and interest collected in accordance with § 50-7-715(c)(1).   Annual estimates of expenditures and requirements from this fund shall be set forth in the budget document, and estimates approved by the general assembly shall be appropriated from this fund as a specific appropriation item in each year's general appropriations act.   No sum sufficient appropriation shall be made from this fund that may add to estimates approved and appropriated by the general assembly, except for subdivisions (a)(1) and (2).   The moneys deposited with the fund may be used for the following purposes:  Replacements in the unemployment compensation administration fund as provided in § 50-7-502(c);   Refunds pursuant to § 50-7-404(f) of interest erroneously collected; and   Meeting necessary expenses for the administration of this chapter, including, but not limited to, automation expenses, as approved by the commissioner of finance and administration, the information systems council, and any other entity as required by law.        Interest earned on this fund shall be credited to and augment this fund.   The balance of this fund and the balance of the unemployment compensation trust fund shall be considered for purposes of establishing the applicable premium table pursuant to § 50-7-403(j).
TN Code § 50-7-504 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 5 - Funds|§ 50-7-504. Nonliability of State for Benefits

  Benefits shall be deemed to be due and payable under this chapter only to the extent provided in this chapter and to the extent that moneys are available for the benefits to the credit of the unemployment compensation fund, and neither the state nor the commissioner shall be liable for any amount in excess of those sums.   However, for the purpose of continuing the payment of benefits provided by this chapter, the commissioner is authorized to secure an advance of funds from the federal government, pursuant to and subject to the terms of the Social Security Act, Title XII, compiled in 42 U.S.C. § 1321 et seq., and/or 26 U.S.C. § 3302, or related acts when and if the commissioner deems the trust fund is insufficient to pay the benefits provided in this chapter for the ensuing six (6) months.
TN Code § 50-7-505 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 5 - Funds|§ 50-7-505. Assessment for Payment of Interest — Interest Paid on Advancement Fund

  In addition to all other premiums due under this chapter, if on any June 1, the fund has utilized during the preceding eight-month period or it has been determined that during the next four-month period ending on September 30, the fund will utilize moneys advanced under  42 U.S.C. § 1321 and interest is or will be due on the moneys advanced, each employer, except any employer who has not had benefits charged against the employer's account during the two-year period ending on the preceding December 31, and who has not had a negative balance in the employer's account during the same two-year period, shall be assessed an amount that will be used exclusively for the payment of interest due on the advance.   The rate at which each such employer liable under subsection (a) will be assessed shall be determined by dividing the interest that will be due on the next September 30, by ninety-five percent (95%) of the total taxable wages paid during the preceding calendar year ending on December 31 by those employers liable under subsection (a).   In order to determine the assessment of each employer liable under subsection (a), multiply the rate as determined in subsection (b) by each such employer's total taxable wages paid during the preceding calendar year ending on December 31.   Each employer liable under subsection (a) shall be notified of the amount due as a result of subsection (a) on or before June 30. The amount shall be considered delinquent if not paid on or before July 31. Amounts that are unpaid on the day following the date due and payable shall bear interest at the same rate as for regular premiums.   The amount of the assessment will not be included in the determination of an employer's experience rating.   There is created in the state treasury a special fund, to be known as the interest paid on advancement fund (IPA fund).   All moneys collected under this section shall be deposited into the IPA fund and are appropriated and made available exclusively to the commissioner of labor and workforce development for use in paying interest owed on advancements.   All remedies applicable to the collection of employer premiums are applicable to this section.   Any interest required to be paid on advances under the Social Security Act, Title XII, compiled in 42 U.S.C. § 1321 et seq., shall be paid in a timely manner and shall not be paid, directly or indirectly, by an equivalent reduction in unemployment premiums or otherwise, from amounts in the unemployment fund.
TN Code § 50-7-507 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 5 - Funds|§ 50-7-507. Investment and Securing of Funds — Interest

  All moneys in the state treasury in funds created by this chapter shall be invested and secured under title 9, chapter 4, parts 1-4 and 6-8; provided, that in the event of any conflict between this section and § 50-7-501(b), § 50-7-501(b) shall control.   The state treasurer shall periodically review the balances in the various funds created pursuant to this chapter and allocate the interest as is payable pursuant to title 9, chapter 4, parts 1-4 and 6-8.   The state treasurer shall pro rata reduce interest allocations to all funds for which interest is paid pursuant to this section, if necessary, to compensate for any account or fund having a negative balance for the period for which interest allocations are made.
TN Code § 50-7-601 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 6 - Administration|§ 50-7-601. Unemployment Compensation Bureau — Division of the Tennessee State Employment Service

  There is created and established in the division of employment security a coordinate bureau to be designated as the unemployment compensation bureau. The bureau shall be a separate administrative unit with respect to personnel and budget, except insofar as the commissioner may find that separation is impracticable. The bureau shall exercise all the powers, perform the duties, and be subject to all the limitations prescribed in this chapter, except those pertaining to overall administration of the division vested in the administrator or except those pertaining to the overall supervision of the department vested in the commissioner, and those provided in this section for the division of the Tennessee state employment service.   There is also created within the department of labor and workforce development the division of Tennessee state employment service, the latter being more fully described in § 50-7-608. The division shall be a separate administrative entity with respect to personnel and budget, except insofar as the commissioner may find that separation impracticable. The division shall be subject to the supervision and control of the commissioner within the provisions of this chapter.
TN Code § 50-7-602 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 6 - Administration|§ 50-7-602. Authority and Duties of Commissioner

  It is the duty of the administrator to administer this chapter. The commissioner has the power and authority to adopt, amend or rescind rules and regulations, to employ persons, make expenditures, require reports, make investigations, and take other action the commissioner deems necessary or suitable to that end.   The rules and regulations shall be effective as provided in the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.   The commissioner shall determine the commissioner's own organization and methods of procedure in accordance with this section, and shall have an official seal, which shall be judicially noticed.   Not later than February 1 of each year, the commissioner shall submit to the governor a report covering the administration and operation of this chapter during the preceding twelve-month period ending on September 30, and shall make recommendations for amendments to this chapter the commissioner deems proper.   The report shall include a balance sheet of the moneys in the fund in which there shall be provided, if possible, a reserve against the liability in future years to pay benefits in excess of the then current premiums, which reserve shall be set up by the commissioner in accordance with accepted actuarial principles on the basis of statistics of employment, business activity and other relevant factors for the longest possible period.   Whenever the commissioner believes that a change in premium or benefit rates will become necessary to protect the solvency of the fund, the commissioner shall promptly so inform the governor and the general assembly, and make recommendations with respect to the change in premium or benefit rates.
TN Code § 50-7-603 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 6 - Administration|§ 50-7-603. Regulations and Rules

 Regulations and rules may be adopted, amended or rescinded by the commissioner as provided in the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
TN Code § 50-7-604 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 7 - Tennessee Employment Security Law|Part 6 - Administration|§ 50-7-604. Publications

 The commissioner shall cause to be printed for distribution to the public the text of this chapter, the commissioner's regulations and general rules, the commissioner's annual reports to the governor, to be printed for distribution biennially, and any other material the commissioner deems relevant and suitable and shall furnish the material to any person upon application for the material.