CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECIPROCAL AGREEMENTS (§ 60.2-116)

A. Subject to the approval of the Governor, the Commission is hereby authorized
to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or the
federal government whereby individuals performing services in this and other
states for a single employing unit under circumstances not specifically provided
for in §§ 60.2-212 through 60.2-219, or under similar provisions in the
unemployment compensation laws of such other states, shall be deemed to be
engaged in employment performed entirely within this Commonwealth or within one
of such other states. Such arrangements may set forth terms whereby the
potential right to benefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation laws
of one or more states or under such a law of the federal government, or both,
may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through a single
appropriate agency of any state under terms which the Commission finds will be
fair and reasonable as to all affected interests and will not result in any
substantial loss to the fund.

B. Subject to the approval of the Governor, the Commission is also authorized to
enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or of the
federal government:

   1.  a. Whereby wages or services, upon the basis of which an individual may
   become entitled to benefits under the unemployment compensation law of another
   state or of the federal government, shall be deemed to be wages for employment
   by employers for the purposes of §§ 60.2-602, 60.2-606, 60.2-607, 60.2-609,
   60.2-610, 60.2-611, subdivision 1 of § 60.2-612 and §§ 60.2-614 through
   60.2-617, provided such other state agency or agency of the federal government
   has agreed to reimburse the fund for such portion of benefits paid under this
   title upon the basis of such wages or services as the Commission finds will be
   fair and reasonable as to all affected interests; and
            

      b.  Whereby the Commission will reimburse other state or federal agencies
      charged with the administration of unemployment compensation laws with such
      reasonable portion of benefits, paid under the law of any such other states
      or of the federal government upon the basis of employment or wages for
      employment by employers, as the Commission finds will be fair and reasonable
      as to all affected interests.

   2.  Reimbursements so payable under subdivision 1 b of this subsection shall
   be deemed to be benefits for the purposes of §§ 60.2-300 through 60.2-304,
   but no reimbursement so payable shall be charged against any employer’s
   account for the purposes of §§ 60.2-526 through 60.2-531. The Commission is
   hereby authorized to make to other state or federal agencies and receive from
   such other state or federal agencies, reimbursements from or to the fund, in
   accordance with arrangements pursuant to this section.

C. Subject to the approval of the Governor, the Commission is also authorized to
enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or of the
federal government:

   1.  Whereby the Commission may deduct, in accordance with the provisions of §
   60.2-633, from unemployment benefits otherwise payable to an individual an
   amount equal to any overpayment made to such individual under an unemployment
   benefit program of the United States or of any other state, and not previously
   recovered. The amount so deducted shall be paid to the jurisdiction under
   whose program such overpayment was made and in accordance with the arrangement
   between the Commission and the jurisdiction.

   2.  Whereby the United States agrees to allow the Commission to recover from
   unemployment benefits otherwise payable to an individual under an unemployment
   benefit program of the United States any overpayments made by the Commission
   to such individual under this title and not previously recovered, in
   accordance with the same procedures that apply under subdivision 1 of this
   subsection.

   3.  The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to recoveries made on
   or after July 1, 1987, and shall apply with respect to overpayments made
   before, on, or after such date.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 60-40; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-45; 1986, c. 480; 1987, c.
113.