Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1665.1 – Definitions
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1665.1
- Base period: means the first four of the last five complete calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual's benefit year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
- Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this Chapter, with respect to his unemployment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
- Employment: means , subject to the other provisions of this Subsection, any services including service in interstate commerce, performed for wages or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied;
- Fund: means the unemployment compensation fund established by this Chapter, to which all contributions required and from which all benefits provided under this Chapter shall be paid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
- State: includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
- United States: when used in a geographical sense, includes the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
- Wages: means all remuneration for services, including vacation pay, holiday pay, dismissal pay, commissions, bonuses, the cash value of all remuneration in any medium other than cash, and WARN Act payments received pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
- Week: means such period of seven consecutive days, as the administrator may by regulation prescribe. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
As used in La. Rev. Stat. 23:1665.1 through 1665.3, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows:
(1) “Form IB-8606” is the interstate request for recovery document submitted by states when requesting assistance in recovering overpayments.
(2) “Liable state” means any state against which an individual files a claim for benefits through another state.
(3) “Offset” means the withholding of an amount against benefits which would otherwise be payable for a compensable week of unemployment.
(4) “Overpayment” means an improper payment of benefits from a state or federal unemployment compensation fund that has been determined recoverable under the requesting state’s law.
(5) “Participating state” means a state which has subscribed to the Interstate Reciprocal Overpayment Recovery Arrangement.
(6) “Paying state” means the state under whose law a claim for unemployment benefits has been established on the basis of combining wages and employment covered in more than one state.
(7) “Payment” means a check or electronic transfer for the amount recovered.
(8) “Recovering state” means the state that has received a request for assistance from a requesting state.
(9) “Requesting state” means the state that has issued a final determination of overpayment and is requesting another state to assist in recovering the outstanding balance from the overpaid individual.
(10) “State” means any of the fifty states of the United States of America, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.
(11) “Transferring state” means a state in which a combined wage claimant had covered employment and wages in the base period of a paying state, and which transferred such employment and wages to the paying state for its use in determining the benefit rights of such claimant under its law.
Acts 2013, No. 48, §1.