2006 Minnesota Statutes

268.087 UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS DUE DECEASED PERSONS.
If unemployment benefits are due and payable at the time of an applicant's death, those
benefits may, upon application, be paid to the personal representative of the estate of the deceased.
In the event that no personal representative is appointed, the unemployment benefits may, upon
application be paid in the following order: (1) the surviving spouse, (2) the surviving child or
children, or (3) the surviving parent or parents.
An individual seeking payment shall complete an application prescribed by the commissioner
and the payment of unemployment benefits shall discharge the obligations to the applicant and no
other individual shall claim or assert any right to those unemployment benefits.
History: (4337-26) Ex1936 c 2 s 6; 1937 c 43 s 2; 1937 c 306 s 4; 1939 c 443 s 5; 1941 c
554 s 5; 1943 c 650 s 4; 1945 c 376 s 5; 1949 c 605 s 9; 1953 c 97 s 9; 1953 c 699 s 10; 1965 c
741 s 14-16; 1969 c 6 s 34; 1971 c 942 s 9,10; 1973 c 599 s 6-8; 1975 c 104 s 2; 1975 c 336 s
13-15; 1975 c 359 s 23; 1976 c 163 s 59; 1976 c 271 s 78; 1977 c 4 s 7; 1977 c 297 s 15-18; 1978
c 612 s 1; 1979 c 24 s 1; 1979 c 181 s 9,10,19; 1980 c 508 s 8; 1Sp1982 c 1 s 23-25; 1983 c 290 s
168; 1983 c 372 s 20-24; 1985 c 248 s 44; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 362 s 18; 1987 c 384 art 1 s 55;
1987 c 385 s 20-22; 1989 c 209 art 2 s 1; 1989 c 282 art 2 s 169; 1990 c 516 s 4; 1991 c 265 art
11 s 22; 1992 c 484 s 10; 1993 c 67 s 3,4; 1994 c 488 s 2,3,8; 1995 c 54 s 8,9; 1995 c 231 art 1 s
32; 1996 c 417 s 18,31; 1997 c 66 s 36-42; 1998 c 265 s 24,45; 1999 c 107 s 66; 2000 c 343 s 4