North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 27 - Job Service North Dakota › Article 27-03 - Unemployment Compensation Benefits › Chapter 27-03-01 - Definition of Benefit Terms › Section 27-03-01-01 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
Benefit terms used in regulations, interpretations, rules,
				  forms, instructions, and other official pronouncements issued by the bureau,
				  shall have the following meanings:
1.
				"Additional claim" is a notification filed at the beginning of a second or
				subsequent series of claims within a benefit year when reemployment and
				subsequent separation have occurred since the last claim was filed.
2. "Claimant" is an individual who has
				requested determination of insured status in connection with a claim for
				benefits.
3. "Continued claim" is
				an application for waiting period credit or benefit payment and certifies to
				the completion of a week for which waiting period credit or benefits are
				claimed.
4. "Full-time work" means
				the number of hours or days per week currently established by schedule, custom,
				or otherwise, as constituting a week of full-time work for the kind of service
				an individual performs for an employing unit.
5. "Insured status" is a claimant's status
				when it has been determined by the division that the claimant has earned
				qualifying wages in accordance with North Dakota Century Code section
				 52-06-04.
6. "New claim" is an application for
				determination of insured status, benefit amount, and duration.
7. "Part totally unemployed worker" is an
				individual who during any week is not employed full time or during which week
				the individual's earnings from casual employment or odd jobs are less than the
				individual's weekly benefit amount.
8. "Partially unemployed worker" is one who
				during a particular week:
a. Earned less than
				his weekly benefit amount;
b. Was
				employed by a regular employing unit;
c. Worked less than the normal customary
				full-time hours for such regular employing unit because of a lack of full-time
				work; and
d. Has a reasonable
				expectancy of obtaining full-time work from such employing unit.
9. "Reopened claim" is a
				notification following a break in the claim series due to illness,
				disqualification, unavailability, or failure to report for any reason other
				than reemployment.
10. "Totally
				unemployed worker" is an individual who with respect to any week performs no
				services and with respect to which no wages are payable to the individual for
				services performed during such week.
11. "Valid claim" means a claim filed by an
				individual who has registered for work and who has earned wage credits during
				the individual's base period sufficient to entitle the individual to benefits
				under North Dakota Century Code section
				 52-06-04.
12. "Week" means the calendar week of seven
				consecutive calendar days, beginning at 12:01 a.m. Sunday and ending twelve
				midnight the following Saturday, except that for the purposes of payment of
				benefits to partially unemployed workers, whose wages are paid on a weekly
				basis, the term week means the pay period week of such worker.
General Authority:
NDCC
				   52-02-02
Law Implemented:
NDCC
				   52-01-01(21),
				   52-01-01(23),
				   52-06-01,
				   52-06-04,
				   52-06-06