Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 5 > Article 4 - Board of Public Works

• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Exhaustee: means an individual who, with respect to any week of unemployment in his or her eligibility period:

  (A) Has received, prior to such week, all of the regular benefits which were available to him or her under this chapter or any other state law (including dependents'. See West Virginia Code 21A-6A-1

• Extended benefit period: means a period which:

  (A) Begins with the third week after a week for which there is a state "on" indicator. See West Virginia Code 21A-6A-1

• Extended benefits: means benefits (including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen pursuant to 5 U. See West Virginia Code 21A-6A-1
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Rate of insured unemployment: means the percentage derived by dividing:

  (A) The average weekly number of individuals filing claims for regular compensation in this state for weeks of unemployment with respect to the most recent thirteen-consecutive-week period as determined by the commissioner on the basis of his or her reports to the United States Secretary of Labor. See West Virginia Code 21A-6A-1

• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Regular benefits: means benefits payable to an individual under this chapter or under any other state law (including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen pursuant to 5 U. See West Virginia Code 21A-6A-1
• State law: means the unemployment insurance law of any state, approved by the United States Secretary of Labor under 26 U. See West Virginia Code 21A-6A-1
• suitable work: means , with respect to any individual, any work which is within such individual'. See West Virginia Code 21A-6A-1