2023 Code of Alabama › Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor. › Chapter 4 - Unemployment Compensation. › Article 6 - Administration. › Section 25-4-120 - Reciprocal Arrangements With State and Federal Agencies.

Section 25-4-120
Reciprocal arrangements with state and federal agencies.
(a) Interstate benefit payments. The secretary is hereby authorized to enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the federal government, or both, whereby potential rights to benefits under this chapter may constitute the basis for payment of benefits by another state or the federal government, and potential rights to benefits accumulated under the law of another state or the federal government may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits by this state. Such benefits shall be paid under such provisions of the law of the state wherein the wages, upon the basis of which such benefits are determined, were issued. No such arrangement shall be entered into unless it contains provision for reimbursement to the fund for such benefits as are paid on the basis of wages and service subject to the law of another state or the federal government, and provision for reimbursement from the fund for such benefits as are paid by another state or the federal government on the basis of wages and service subject to this chapter. Reimbursements paid from the fund pursuant to this subsection shall be deemed to be benefits for the purposes of this chapter.
(b) Combination of wage credits. The secretary 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 his wages and employment covered under the unemployment compensation laws of other states, which are approved by the United States Secretary of Labor in consultation with the state unemployment compensation agencies as reasonably calculated to assure the prompt and full payment of compensation in such situations, and which include provisions for
(1) Applying the base period of a single state law to a claim involving the combining of an individual's wage and employment covered under two or more state unemployment compensation laws, and
(2) Avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment by reason of such combining.
(c) Reciprocal coverage. The secretary is hereby authorized to enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the federal government or both, whereby, notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter:
(1) Service performed by an individual for a single employing unit for which service is customarily performed by such individual in more than one state shall be deemed to be service performed entirely within any one of the states in which
a. Any part of such individual's service is performed, or
b. Such individual has his residence, or
c. The employing unit maintains a place of business; provided, that there is in effect, as to such service an approved election by an employing unit with the consent of such individual, pursuant to which service performed by such individual for such employing unit is deemed to be performed entirely within such state; and
(2) Service performed by not more than three individuals, on any portion of a day but not necessarily simultaneously, for a single employing unit which customarily operates in more than one state shall be deemed to be service performed entirely within the state in which such employing unit maintains the headquarters of its business; provided, that there is in effect, as to such service, an approved election by an employing unit with the consent of each such individual, pursuant to which service performed by such individual for such employing unit is deemed to be performed entirely within such state.
(d) Reexamination of reciprocal arrangements. If, after entering into an arrangement provided for by this section, the secretary finds that the employment security law of any state or of the federal government participating in such arrangement has been changed in a material respect, the secretary shall make a new finding as to whether such arrangement shall be continued with such state or with the federal government.
(e) Overpayments of unemployment benefits which have become final under this chapter shall be recovered by offset from unemployment benefits otherwise payable under the unemployment compensation law of another state, and overpayments of unemployment benefits as determined under the unemployment compensation law of the other state shall be recovered by offset from unemployment benefits otherwise payable under this chapter.
(f) Overpayments of unemployment benefits as determined under applicable federal law, with respect to benefits or allowances for unemployment provided under a federal program administered by this state under an agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor, shall be recovered by offset from unemployment benefits otherwise payable under this chapter or any federal program, or under the unemployment compensation law of another state or any federal unemployment benefit or allowance program administered by the other state under an agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor if the state has in effect a reciprocal agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor as authorized by Section 303(g) (2) of the Federal Social Security Act, and if the United States agrees, as provided in the reciprocal agreement with this state entered into under Section 303(g) (2) of the Social Security Act, that overpayments as determined under this chapter and overpayments as determined under the unemployment compensation law of another state which has in effect a reciprocal agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor as authorized by Section 303(g) (2) of the Social Security Act, shall be recovered by offset from benefits or allowances of unemployment otherwise payable under a federal program administered by this state or the other state under an agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor.
(Acts 1939, No. 497, p. 721; Code 1940, T. 26, §237; Acts 1949, No. 287, p. 414; Acts 1971, No. 88, p. 349, §12; Acts 1995, No. 95-311, p. 582, §2.)