Definitions . Section 1. The following words and phrases as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— ...

Service deemed “employment”; exclusions . Section 2. Service performed by an individual, except in such cases as the context of this chapter otherwise requires, shall ...

Service within and without commonwealth included in “employment” . Section 3. The term “employment”, except in such cases as the context of this chapter otherwise ...

Repealed, 1971, 940, Sec. 3 . ...

Service included in employment; American employer; state . Section 4A. The term “employment” shall include any service performed prior to January first, nineteen hundred and ...

Repealed, 1977, 720, Sec. 4 . ...

Services under arrangements with agencies of other states and federal government included in “employment” . Section 5. The term “employment” shall include services covered by ...

Service not included in “employment” . Section 6. The term “employment” shall not include: (a) service in agricultural labor, except ...

Other service not included in “employment” . Section 6A. The term “employment” shall not include service performed by an individual in the employ of the ...

Repealed, 1971, 940, Sec. 10 . ...

Employing units subject to statute . Section 8. Any employing unit, other than one for which services described under subsections (a), (b) and (c) of ...

Other employing units subject to statute . Section 8A. (a) An employing unit for which services described under subsection (a) of section four A are ...

Domestic service and agricultural labor; employer . Section 8B. (a) The remuneration earned or the employment of an individual performing domestic service after December thirty-first, ...

Crew leaders; definition; employees of crew leaders . Section 8C. (a) Crew Leaders who are registered or provide specialized agricultural labor. For the purposes of ...

Individuals employed by unit in several places . Section 9. All individuals employed by an employing unit in all of his or its several places ...

Repealed, 1971, 940, Sec. 10 . ...

Ceasing to be subject to statute on application . Section 11. No employer shall cease to be subject to this chapter except upon a finding ...

Determination whether employer within statute; review; double costs; reconsideration . Section 12. The commissioner, upon his own motion, or upon application of an employing unit, ...

Payment; credited to unemployment compensation fund . Section 13. The contributions required hereunder shall be paid to the commonwealth in such manner and at such ...

Rates in general; contributions in general; definitions; notice of payment of benefit and potential charges; review; transfer of business . Section 14. Each employer shall ...

Nonprofit organizations and governmental employers . Section 14A. Benefits paid to employees of nonprofit organizations shall be financed in accordance with the provisions of this ...

Liability for payments; credits; adjustments . Section 14B. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary: (a)(1) Each ...

Contributions by governmental employers; rated governmental employers . Section 14C. Notwithstanding the provisions of section fourteen, each governmental employer included in subsection (i) of section ...

Repealed, 1983, 233, Sec. 67A . ...

Economic development fund . Section 14E. There is hereby established a separate fund to be known and referred to as the economic development fund. There ...

Unemployment Trust Fund; report concerning fund average and actual balance . Section 14F. On or before the fifteenth day of October of each year, the ...

Unemployment health insurance contribution; medical security trust fund . Section 14G. (a) Beginning on January 1, 1990, each employer, except those employers who employ five ...

Repealed, 1989, 19, Sec. 3 . ...

Repealed, 1998, 194, Sec. 188 . ...

Repealed, 1992, 26, Sec. 17 . ...

Federal Loan Interest Fund . Section 14K. There is hereby established a separate fund to be known as the Federal Loan Interest Fund which shall ...

Overdue amounts; failure to file reports; recovery of erroneous payments; assessments; enforcement . Section 15. (a) If any employer fails to pay when due any ...

Collection of payments; levy upon depositary accounts; liability of depositaries . Section 15A. In addition to and as an alternative to any other remedy provided ...

Holder of licenses to sell alcoholic beverages; failure to pay amount owed; suspension of license . Section 15B. If any employer is the holder of ...

Liens of judgments and overdue contributions; recording and filing of notice; actions to enforce liens . Section 16. Judgments obtained under any provision of section ...

Priority of claims . Section 17. Contributions, payments in lieu of contributions and interest or penalties thereon shall have priority over all other claims against ...

Adjustment, credit or refund of overpayments; adjustment or additional payment for insufficient contributions; interest . Section 18. If not later than three years after the ...

Final payment to foreign corporations or non-residents; certificate . Section 19. No final payment shall be made by the commonwealth, or by any agency or ...

Application for or renewal of license to conduct profession or business; certification of compliance with contribution laws; renewal or extension of certain contracts; false certifications . ...

Compromise with employers; statement of commissioner filed . Section 20. (a) The commissioner, with the approval of the state advisory council, may enter into agreements ...

Settlement for amount less than owed; conditions; agreements subject to attorney general review; reopening of case . Section 20A. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of ...

Deductions from income returnable for taxation . Section 21. Contributions made by employers in accordance with this chapter shall be considered ordinary and necessary expenses ...

Payment in general . Section 22. Benefits shall be payable from the Unemployment Compensation Fund to any individual eligible for benefits under this chapter. Such ...

Payment; waiting period . Section 23. Benefits shall be paid to an eligible individual for no more than his weeks of unemployment subsequent to a ...

Eligibility . Section 24. An individual, in order to be eligible for benefits under this chapter, shall— (a) Have been ...

Seasonal employment . Section 24A. (a) No waiting period shall be allowed and no benefits shall be paid to an individual on the basis of ...

Disqualification for benefits . Section 25. No waiting period shall be allowed and no benefits shall be paid to an individual under this chapter for— ...

Benefits under law of another state or United States . Section 26. No waiting period shall be served and no benefits shall be paid under ...

Repealed, 1973, 1042 . ...

Wages not included for benefits . Section 28. Wages earned for services defined in subsection (i) of section six irrespective of when performed, shall not ...

Employees of commonwealth, political subdivisions, or religious, charitable, educational, or other tax exempt organizations . Section 28A. Benefits based on service in employment as defined ...

Weekly benefit rates; partial unemployment; dependency benefits for children; retirement benefit recipients . Section 29. (a) Any individual in total unemployment and otherwise eligible for ...

Repealed, 1982, 489, Sec. 6 . ...

Child support obligations; disclosure; deductions . Section 29B. (a) An individual filing a new claim for unemployment compensation shall, at the time of filing such ...

Repealed, 1992, 26, Sec. 23 . ...

Worksharing plan; approval; modification; revocation; benefits . Section 29D. (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, ...

Notification to claimants; tax liability and withholding . Section 29E. (a) The deputy director shall notify in writing each individual who files a new initial ...

Uncollected overissuance of food stamp coupons; disclosure; deductions . Section 29F. (a) An individual filing a new initial claim for unemployment benefits shall, at the ...

Total benefits for year; industrial or vocational retraining; solvency account charge; trade readjustment allowance . Section 30. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the ...

Extended benefits program . Section 30A. (1) As used in this section the following words and phrases shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have ...

Additional benefits . Section 30B. (a) An individual whose eligibility or continued eligibility for unemployment benefits pursuant to the Federal Supplemental Compensation Act of 1982 ...

Repealed, 1983, 2, Sec. 1 . ...

Benefits in a subsequent benefit year . Section 31. No individual may receive benefits in a subsequent benefit year unless, since the beginning of the ...

Repealed, 1951, 763, Sec. 14 . ...

Repealed, 1943, 534, Sec. 4 . ...

Repealed, 1951, 763, Sec. 14 . ...

Waiver of rights; agreement to pay contributions or payments in lieu of contributions; deduction from wages; enforcement . Section 35. Except as provided in the ...

Assigning, encumbering or releasing benefits; exemption from claims of creditors; exception . Section 36. Benefits which are or may become due under this chapter shall ...

Fees and representation in proceedings under statute; solicitation of business of representing claimant . Section 37. No fee shall be charged in any proceeding under ...

Claims, reports, notices and returns, in general; notice of claimant’s failure to report for work . Section 38. (a) Benefit claims shall be filed at ...

Determination of claim and benefits; procedures; payment of claims or denials; default in payment of contributions . Section 39. (a) The commissioner or his authorized ...

Application for review . Section 40. A claimant or interested party may, within thirty days after mailing to him of notice of the decision, file ...

Review by board; procedures; findings of fact; decision; judicial review . Section 41. (a) Unless such application for review is withdrawn, the board of review ...

Judicial review; procedures; appeals; rules . Section 42. The commissioner or any interested person aggrieved by any decision in any proceeding before the board of ...

Commissioner represented by attorney general or designated attorney . Section 42A. In any action to enforce any provision of this chapter, or any criminal proceedings ...

Modification or reversal of decision; recovery of payments . Section 42B. If any determination under section thirty-nine, or any decision under section thirty-nine, forty-one or ...

Administering oaths; depositions; certifications; witnesses; production of evidence; contempt; self-incrimination . Section 43. In the discharge of the duties prescribed by this chapter, the commissioner ...

Accounts for employers; records for employees; disposition of papers; summaries; reproductions . Section 44. (a) The commissioner shall maintain a separate account for each employer, ...

Records and reports of employing units; verification . Section 45. Every employing unit shall keep true and accurate records of all individuals employed by him ...

Repealed, 1976, 473, Sec. 16 . ...

Confidential information; admissibility as evidence; exceptions to disclosure restrictions . Section 46. (a) Except as provided in this section, information secured pursuant to this chapter ...

False statements or misrepresentations; punishment; evidence; restitution . Section 47. Any person who knowingly makes any false or misleading statement, representation or submission or knowingly ...

Utterance or delivery of insufficient funds check with intent to defraud; punishment . Section 47A. Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters or delivers ...

Establishment; composition; benefits payable from pooled money . Section 48. There is hereby established, separate and apart from all public moneys or funds of the ...

Vested rights . Section 49. No person shall be or be deemed to be vested with any property or other right by virtue of the ...

Treasurer; clearing account; fund account; deposit with United States secretary of the treasury . Section 50. (a) The state treasurer shall be, ex officio, the ...

Requisition from trust fund; transfer to commissioner . Section 51. The state treasurer shall from time to time requisition from said Unemployment Trust Fund such ...

Benefit account . Section 52. All moneys requisitioned from the commonwealth’s account in the Unemployment Trust Fund in the United States treasury and received by ...

Unclaimed balance in benefit account . Section 53. Any balance of moneys requisitioned from the Unemployment Trust Fund which remains unclaimed or unpaid in the ...

Unemployment Trust Fund; money credited to commonwealth’s account; use; records . Section 53A. Money credited to the commonwealth’s account in the Unemployment Trust Fund by ...

Depositaries; insurance charge; commingling funds . Section 54. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, moneys in the clearing and benefit accounts and the contingent ...

Bond of commissioner; premiums paid from administrative account . Section 55. The commissioner shall give a bond conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties ...

Trust fund; administration upon cessation of Unemployment Compensation Fund or federal separate book account; investments . Section 56. The provisions of this chapter, to the ...

Requisitions from state trust fund; investment board; deposits; investments; assistance . Section 57. In the event of the provisions contained in section fifty-six becoming operative ...

Employment security administration account; monies received; disposition . Section 58. (a) There is hereby created the employment security administration account, hereinafter called the account, to ...

Contingent fund; establishment; composition; expenditures; transfer . Section 58A. There is hereby established a special fund to be known as the contingent fund which shall ...

Liability on state treasurer’s bond . Section 59. The state treasurer, in addition to the provisions contained in section two of chapter ten, shall be ...

Federal moneys allotted to commonwealth paid into accounts . Section 60. All federal moneys allotted or apportioned to the commonwealth by the Federal Social Security ...

Special employment service accounts; agreements relative to employment offices; acceptance of moneys, services or quarters . Section 61. Special employment service accounts shall be maintained ...

State advisory council; duties, powers and reports . Section 62. The state advisory council shall perform all the duties imposed on it by this chapter, ...

Unemployment compensation; orientation; notice; initiation of claim . Section 62A. (a) The division of unemployment assistance shall provide a minimum level of in-person assistance at ...

Publication and free distribution of statutes, reports, regulations and relevant material . Section 63. The commissioner, subject to the approval of the commission on administration ...

Reports and information for federal, commonwealth and political subdivision agencies; confidential information; federal regulations governing expenditures . Section 64. (a) The commissioner shall make such ...

List of employers qualified for exemption under Sec. 5I of chapter 59; confidentiality . Section 64A. The commissioner shall on or before July first of ...

Records available to federal railroad retirement board; cooperation with federal agencies; agreements relative to employment offices; acceptance of moneys, services or quarters . Section 65. ...

Reciprocal arrangements with other states and federal government; reimbursements; investigations; exchange of information, services and facilities; benefits based on combined coverages . Section 66. The ...

Arrangements for utilizing facilities and services of commonwealth and foreign countries . Section 66A. To the extent permissible under the laws and constitution of the ...

Estimate of liability of employer failing to make report or return; collection . Section 67. If any employer shall wilfully fail or refuse to make ...

Payment of benefits due a deceased or mentally incapacitated person . Section 68. The commissioner may provide for the payment, to such person or persons ...

Recovery or deduction of erroneous payments; cancellation; liability of disbursing officer . Section 69. (a) The department may recover by a civil action any amounts ...

Charging off uncollectible amounts . Section 69A. The commissioner, upon certification to the state advisory council, may charge off any delinquent contributions, payments in lieu ...

Set-off against refunds; notice; review . Section 69B. In addition to any other remedy provided by this chapter, the commissioner may request that the amount ...

Reduction of back pay award due to receipt of unemployment benefits; notice to commissioner; reimbursement of unemployment compensation fund . Section 69C. (a) If a ...

Extent of application of rulings . Section 70. The commissioner may prescribe to what extent any ruling or decision may be applied without retroactive effect. ...

Reconsideration of determinations; limitations; notice; appeals . Section 71. The commissioner may reconsider a determination whenever he finds that (1) an error has occurred in ...

Definitions . Section 71A. As used in section seventy-one B to seventy-one G inclusive, the following words shall unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have ...

Closing of facility; report; certification; notice; hearing; appeal . Section 71B. (a) Every employer who is closing a facility, as defined in section seventy-one A, ...

Partial closings; identification; regulations; eligibility for reemployment assistance benefits . Section 71C. Subject to appropriation, the commissioner shall, in consultation with the Massachusetts industrial advisory ...

Reemployment assistance program . Section 71D. Subject to appropriation, the director of workforce development, in coordination with the secretary and with any other appropriate agency, ...

Reemployment Assistance Fund; Health Insurance Benefits Fund . Section 71E. There is hereby established a Reemployment Assistance Fund and a Health Insurance Benefits Fund which ...

Eligibility for reemployment assistance benefits . Section 71F. (a) An employee shall be eligible to receive reemployment assistance benefits with respect to any week of ...

Eligibility for health insurance benefits . Section 71G. (a) An employee eligible to receive reemployment assistance benefits under section seventy-one F shall also be eligible ...

Plant closing employers; bills for reemployment assistance benefits . Section 71H. (a) At the end of each calendar month, or at the end of any ...

Employees of generation facilities, electric companies and gas companies; reemployment assistance benefits . [Text effective until December 31, 2005. Repealed by 1998, 481, Sec. ...

Jurisdiction of action to enforce statute; entry fee in actions and proceedings . Section 72. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have general jurisdiction ...

Partial invalidity . Section 73. If any part, section or subdivision of this chapter, or the application thereof, shall be held invalid, unconstitutional or inoperative ...

Title of statute; construction; purpose . Section 74. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Unemployment Insurance Law, and shall be ...