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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 16. Labor And Employment
Agency 5. Virginia Employment Commission
Chapter 70. Interstate and Multistate Claimants
6/25/2025

16VAC5-70-10. Cooperative agreement.

A. This section shall govern the commission in its administrative cooperation with other states adopting a similar regulation for the payment of benefits to interstate claimants.

B. A week of unemployment for an interstate claimant shall consist of any week of unemployment as defined in the law of the liable state from which benefits with respect to such week are claimed.

C. Each interstate claimant shall be registered for work through any public employment office in the agent state when and as required by the law, regulations, and procedures of the agent state. Such registration shall be accepted as meeting the registration requirements of the liable state.

Each agent state shall duly report to the liable state in question whether each interstate claimant meets the registration requirements of the agent state.

D. With respect to weeks of unemployment during which an individual is attached to the individual's regular employer, the liable state shall accept any claim filed within the time limit applicable to such claims under the law of the agent state.

Statutory Authority

§§ 60.2-111 and 60.2-623 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from VR300-01-7 § 1, eff. December 14, 1994; amended, Virginia Register Volume 18, Issue 26, eff. November 3, 2002; Volume 39, Issue 8, eff. January 19, 2023; Volume 41, Issue 15, eff. April 24, 2025.

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