1998 Minnesota Statutes

     268.131 Reciprocal benefit arrangements. 

    Subdivision 1.  (a) The commissioner shall participate in 
 reciprocal arrangements with other states and the federal 
 government, or both, for the payment of benefits on the basis of 
 combining a claimant's wages and employment covered under this 
 law with wages and employment covered under the reemployment 
 insurance laws of other states or the federal government that 
 include provisions for applying the base period of a single 
 state law to an account involving the combining of a claimant's 
 wages and employment and avoiding the duplicate use of wages by 
 reason of such combining.  No reciprocal arrangement shall be 
 entered into unless it contains provisions for reimbursements to 
 the fund, by the other state or the federal government, for 
 benefits paid from the fund to claimants based upon wages and 
 employment covered under the laws of the other state or the 
 federal government. 

    (b) On any reciprocal arrangement, the wages paid a 
 claimant from employment covered under a reemployment insurance 
 law of another state or of the federal government, shall be 
 considered wages from covered employment for the purpose of 
 determining the claimant's rights to benefits under sections 
 268.03 to 268.23. 

    Subd. 2.    Cooperation with foreign governments.  The 
 commissioner is authorized to enter into or cooperate in 
 arrangements whereby facilities and services provided under 
 sections 268.03 to 268.23 and facilities and services provided 
 under the reemployment insurance law of any foreign government, 
 may be used for the taking of applications for benefits and 
 continued claims and the payment of benefits under this law or 
 under a similar law of a foreign government.  

    HIST: (4337-31) Ex1936 c 2 s 11; 1937 c 306 s 8; 1939 c 443 s 
 9; 1941 c 554 s 10; 1943 c 650 s 8; 1945 c 376 s 10; 1947 c 432 
 s 8-10; 1965 c 45 s 45; 1969 c 9 s 64; 1971 c 942 s 13; 1979 c 
 181 s 16; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 209 art 2 s 1; 1996 c 417 s 31; 
 1997 c 66 s 79; 1998 c 265 s 33-35,45