Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 1. "Agent state" means any state in which an individual files a claim for benefits from another state. 2. "Benefits" means the compensation payable to an individual, with respect to the individual's unemployment, under the unemployment insurance law of any state. 3. "Interstate benefit payment plan" means the plan approved by the interstate conference of employment security agencies under which benefits shall be payable to unemployed individuals absent from the state or states in which benefit credits have been accumulated. 4. "Interstate claimant" means an individual who claims benefits under the unemployment insurance law of one or more liable states through the facilities of an agent state. The term shall not include any individual who customarily commutes from a residence in an agent state to work in a liable state unless the North Dakota unemployment compensation division finds that this exclusion would create undue hardship on such claimants in specified areas. 5. "Liable state" means any state against which an individual files, through another state, a claim for benefits. 6. "State" includes, in addition to the states of the United States of America, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. 7. "Week of unemployment" includes any week of unemployment as defined in the law of the liable state from which benefits with respect to such week are claimed.