1999 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 an applicant's wages and employment covered under this 
 law with wages and employment covered under the reemployment 
 compensation 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 an 
 applicant'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 applicants 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 an 
 applicant from employment covered under a reemployment 
 compensation law of another state or of the federal government, 
 shall be considered wages from covered employment for the 
 purpose of determining the applicant'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 compensation 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; 1999 c 107 s 66