2006 Minnesota Statutes

268.131 RECIPROCAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT ARRANGEMENTS.
    Subdivision 1. Cooperation with other state and federal government. (a) The
commissioner shall participate in reciprocal arrangements with other states and the federal
government, or both, for the payment of unemployment benefits on the basis of combining an
applicant's wages and employment covered under this law with wages and employment covered
under the unemployment insurance programs 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 trust fund, by the other state or the federal government, for
unemployment benefits paid from the trust 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 an unemployment insurance program 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 unemployment benefits under the Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Law.
    Subd. 2. Cooperation with foreign governments. The commissioner is authorized to enter
into or cooperate in arrangements whereby facilities and services provided under the Minnesota
Unemployment Insurance Law and facilities and services provided under the unemployment
insurance program of any foreign government, may be used for the taking of applications for
unemployment benefits and continued biweekly requests and the payment of unemployment
benefits under this law or under a similar law of a foreign government.
History: (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; 2000 c 343 s 4; 2001 c 175 s 45,52; 1Sp2003 c 3 art 2 s 20