Alaska Statutes 23.20.370 – Benefits of decedent or incompetent
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 23.20.370
- benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter with respect to the individual's unemployment. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
- fund: means the unemployment compensation fund established by this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
- person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
Benefits due and payable to a deceased or judicially declared incompetent person shall be paid, in accordance with regulations adopted by the department, to persons in the following order: spouse, child, parent, sister or brother, aunt or uncle, payment to whom the department finds will best carry out the purposes of this chapter. The regulations need not conform to the statutes applicable to the descent and distribution of decedents’ estates. A receipt from the person to whom the department makes payment fully discharges the fund and the department from liability for the benefits.