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Hon. S. Perry Brown, Page 6 (ww-485)
Article 5221b-15a pertains to "Reciprocal arrangements".
Section (a) of this Article, provides for reciprocal arrange-
ments regarding individuals working for a single employing
unit in several states.
Section (b) provides that:
"(b) The Commission is also authorized
to enter into arrangements with the appropri-
ate agencies of other States or of the
Federal Government whereby potential rights
to benefits accumulated under the unemploy-
ment compensation laws of one or more States
or under one or more such laws of the Federal
Government, or both, may constitute the basis
for the payment of benefits through a single
appropriate agency under terms which the Com-
mission finds will be fair and reasonable as
to all affected interests and will not result
in any substantial loss to the fund."
This Section of the Texas Act is commonly called the "Com-
bined Wage Agreement Section" by the Texas Employment Commission.
The Section means that employees who have potential rights to
benefits under the unemployment compensation laws of one or more
states or under one or more such laws of the Federal Government,
or both, but not having enough benefit rights in any one parti-
cular State or under the Federal Government to qualify for bene-
fit payments, may combine such benefit rights and thereby qualify
for benefit payments through one single agency. Usually the pay-
ments are made by the agency in the state where the largest benefit
credits were accumulated. We are informed by the Insurance Divi-
sion (formerly the Benefit Division) of the Texas Employment Commis-
sion that the Texas Employment Commission processes an average of
125 such reciprocal claims a month. Whereas about 7,000 initial
ordinary benefit claims are currently being processed each week by
the Texas Employment Commission.
Section (c) provides for reimbursements to the agency making
the benefit payments under the above Section (b).
Section (d) authorizes the Commission to enter into reciprocal
arrangements regarding individuals performing services on vessels
engaged in interstate or foreign commerce.
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-485, text, August 8, 1958; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth267097/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.