2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:21-21 - Reciprocal benefit arrangements

43:21-21. Reciprocal benefit arrangements
(a) The commissioner is hereby authorized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or the Federal Government whereby potential rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation laws of several states or under such a law of the Federal Government, or both, may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate agency under terms which the commissioner finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests and will not result in any loss to the fund.
(b) The commissioner is authorized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or of the Federal Government, or both, (1) whereby remuneration, upon the basis of which an individual may become entitled to benefits under the Unemployment Compensation Law of another state or of the Federal Government, shall be deemed to be wages for the purposes of this chapter (R.S. 43:21-1 et seq.), and (2) whereby wages, on the basis of which an individual may become entitled to benefits under this chapter (R.S. 43:21-1 et seq.) shall be deemed to be remuneration on the basis of which benefits are payable under the Unemployment Compensation Law of another state or of the Federal Government. No such arrangement shall be entered into unless it contains provision for reimbursement to the fund for such portion of benefits paid under this chapter (R.S. 43:21-1 et seq.) on the basis of such remuneration, and provision for reimbursement from the fund for that portion of benefits paid under such other law on the basis of such wages, as the commissioner finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests. Subsection (f) of 43:21-5 of this chapter (R.S. 43:21-1 et seq.) shall be inapplicable to an individual who files a claim for benefits under any such arrangement. The commissioner shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of benefits on the basis of combining an individual's wages and employment covered under the Unemployment Compensation Law of New Jersey with his wages in 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 benefits 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 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 such combining. Reimbursements paid from the fund pursuant to such arrangements shall be deemed to be benefits for the purposes of this chapter (R.S. 43:21-1 et seq.). The commissioner is hereby authorized to make to other state or Federal agencies, and to receive from such other state or Federal agencies, reimbursements from or to the fund in accordance with arrangements pursuant to this section.
(c) The commissioner is authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with the appropriate agencies of other states covering services on vessels engaged in interstate or foreign commerce whereby such services performed for a single employer, under any contract of hire, partly within and partly without this State, shall be deemed to be performed in their entirety either within or without this State.
(d) The commissioner is authorized to enter into reciprocal arrangements with the appropriate and duly authorized agency of any other state or of the United States whereby (i) moneys due the commissioner for contributions, interest and penalties and paid to such agency shall be deemed to have been paid into the unemployment compensation fund of this State as of the date of payment to such agency and (ii) vice versa; provided, that such arrangements contain provisions for the reciprocal transfers of such moneys.
(e) The commissioner is authorized to enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the Federal Government, or both, whereby services performed by an individual for a single employing unit for which services are customarily performed by such individual in more than one state shall be deemed to be services performed entirely within any one of the states (i) in which any part of such individual's services is performed or (ii) in which such individual has his residence or (iii) in which the employing unit maintains a place of business; provided, there is in effect, as to such services, an election, approved by the agency charged with the administration of such state's Unemployment Compensation Law, pursuant to which all the services performed by such individual for such employing unit are deemed to be performed entirely within such state.
(f) To the extent permissible under the laws, treaties and Constitution of the United States, the commissioner is authorized to enter into or cooperate in arrangements whereby facilities and services provided under this chapter (R.S. 43:21-1 et seq.), and facilities and services provided under the Employment Security Law of any foreign government may be utilized for the taking of claims and payment of benefits under the Employment Security Law of this State or under a similar law of such foreign government.
Amended by L.1939, c. 94, p. 212, s. 7; L.1945, c. 73, p. 376, s. 4; L.1945, c. 308, p. 902, s. 6; L.1949, c. 213, p. 690, s. 1; L.1952, c. 189, p. 683, s. 1; L.1960, c. 90, p. 573, s. 1; L.1966, c. 122, s. 1, eff. June 17, 1966; L.1971, c. 346, s. 12.