(1) The Director of the Employment Department may enter into an agreement or agreements with any other state‘s employment security agency, or group thereof, including the Interstate Reciprocal Overpayment Recovery Arrangement, for the mutual and reciprocal recovery of overpaid unemployment compensation benefits. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the director may withhold from benefits otherwise due amounts necessary to recover overpaid benefits on behalf of other states with which the director has entered into such mutual and reciprocal agreements.

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Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 657.785

  • Any other state: includes any state and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • Benefits: means the money allowances payable to unemployed persons under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
  • employment: includes service that is:

    (a) Subject to the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act; or

    (b) Required to be covered under this chapter as a condition for employers to receive a full tax credit against the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. See Oregon Statutes 657.030

(2) For purposes of this section, ‘states’ includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. [1995 c.105 § 2]