General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 151A Unemployment Insurance

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 151A, Section 1
  The following words and phrases as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:--   (a) "Base period'', the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service deemed “employment”; exclusions - Chapter 151A, Section 2
  Service performed by an individual, except in such cases as the context of this chapter otherwise requires, shall be deemed to be employment subject to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service within and without commonwealth included in “employment” - Chapter 151A, Section 3
  The term “employment”, except in such cases as the context of this chapter otherwise requires, shall include an individual’s entire service, performed within, or both...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 940, Sec. 3 - Chapter 151A, Section 4
  Repealed, 1971, 940, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service included in employment; American employer; state - Chapter 151A, Section 4A
  The term "employment'' shall include any service performed prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight which was employment as provided by this chapter prior...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 720, Sec. 4 - Chapter 151A, Section 4B
  Repealed, 1977, 720, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Services under arrangements with agencies of other states and federal government included in “employment” - Chapter 151A, Section 5
  The term “employment” shall include services covered by an arrangement under provisions of section sixty-six, pursuant to which arrangement all services performed by an individual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service not included in “employment” - Chapter 151A, Section 6
  The term "employment'' shall not include:   (a) service in agricultural labor, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of section 4A and section 8C, by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Other service not included in “employment” - Chapter 151A, Section 6A
  The term "employment'' shall not include service performed by an individual in the employ of the commonwealth or any of its instrumentalities or any political...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 940, Sec. 10 - Chapter 151A, Section 7
  Repealed, 1971, 940, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employing units subject to statute - Chapter 151A, Section 8
  Any employing unit, other than one for which services described under subsections (a), (b) and (c) of section four A are performed, shall be subject...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Other employing units subject to statute - Chapter 151A, Section 8A
  (a) An employing unit for which services described under subsection (a) of section four A are performed shall be subject to the provisions of this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Domestic service and agricultural labor; employer - Chapter 151A, Section 8B
  (a) The remuneration earned or the employment of an individual performing domestic service after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven shall not be taken into...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Crew leaders; definition; employees of crew leaders - Chapter 151A, Section 8C
  (a) Crew Leaders who are registered or provide specialized agricultural labor. For the purposes of subsection (h) of section 1, any individual who is a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Individuals employed by unit in several places - Chapter 151A, Section 9
  All individuals employed by an employing unit in all of his or its several places of employment maintained within the commonwealth shall be treated as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 940, Sec. 10 - Chapter 151A, Section 10
  Repealed, 1971, 940, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ceasing to be subject to statute on application - Chapter 151A, Section 11
  No employer shall cease to be subject to this chapter except upon a finding by the commissioner, after having made such investigation as he may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Determination whether employer within statute; review; double costs; reconsideration - Chapter 151A, Section 12
  The commissioner, upon his own motion, or upon application of an employing unit, after investigation, shall determine if an employing unit is an employer within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment; credited to unemployment compensation fund - Chapter 151A, Section 13
  The contributions required hereunder shall be paid to the commonwealth in such manner and at such times as the commissioner may prescribe, and shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rates in general; contributions in general; definitions; notice of payment of benefit and potential charges; review; transfer of business - Chapter 151A, Section 14
  Each employer shall make contributions for each year after nineteen hundred and ninety-one at the applicable rate or rates as set forth in this section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonprofit organizations and governmental employers - Chapter 151A, Section 14A
  Benefits paid to employees of nonprofit organizations shall be financed in accordance with the provisions of this section. For the purpose of this section, a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability for payments; credits; adjustments - Chapter 151A, Section 14B
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary: (a)(1) Each employer liable to make payments in lieu of contributions shall not be liable...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contributions by governmental employers; rated governmental employers - Chapter 151A, Section 14C
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section fourteen, each governmental employer included in subsection (i) of section one which elects, or if it does not otherwise elect...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1983, 233, Sec. 67A - Chapter 151A, Section 14D
  Repealed, 1983, 233, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Economic development fund - Chapter 151A, Section 14E
  There is hereby established a separate fund to be known and referred to as the economic development fund. There shall be credited to such fund...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unemployment Trust Fund; report concerning fund average and actual balance - Chapter 151A, Section 14F
  On or before the fifteenth day of October of each year, the commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to file with the house and senate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unemployment health insurance contribution; medical security trust fund - Chapter 151A, Section 14G
  [ Text of section effective until December 31, 2013. Repealed by 2013, 38, Sec. 111. See 2013, 38, Sec. 215.](a) Beginning on January 1, 1990,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1989, 19, Sec. 3 - Chapter 151A, Section 14H
  Repealed, 1989, 19, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1998, 194, Sec. 188 - Chapter 151A, Section 14I
  Repealed, 1998, 194, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 26, Sec. 17 - Chapter 151A, Section 14J
  Repealed, 1992, 26, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Federal Loan Interest Fund - Chapter 151A, Section 14K
  There is hereby established a separate fund to be known as the Federal Loan Interest Fund which shall be administered by the commissioner, without liability...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Work force training contribution paid by employers - Chapter 151A, Section 14L
  [ Subsection (a) effective until January 1, 2015. For text effective January 1, 2015, see below.] (a) Each employer liable to pay a contribution under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Benefits paid to employees of Indian tribes - Chapter 151A, Section 14M
  Benefits paid to employees of Indian tribes shall be financed and paid in accordance with this section. (a) The term “employer” shall include an Indian...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment of contribution rates and transfer of accounts - Chapter 151A, Section 14N
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the following shall apply regarding the assignment of contribution rates and transfer of accounts: (a) If an employer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraud Penalty Fund - Chapter 151A, Section 14O
  There shall be a separate fund to be known as the Fraud Penalty Fund which shall be administered by the commissioner, without liability on the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reporting of employee information - Chapter 151A, Section 14P
  (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: (1) “Director”, the director of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Collection of unemployment compensation debt by offset of federal tax refund payments through treasury offset program - Chapter 151A, Section 14Q
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 144, Sec. 58 effective March 24, 2015. See 2014, 144, Sec. 81.] The commissioner may enter into an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Overdue amounts; recovery of erroneous payments; assessments; enforcement - Chapter 151A, Section 15
  (a) If any employer fails to pay when due any amount required of such employer under this chapter, such overdue amount shall carry interest at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Collection of payments; levy upon depositary accounts; liability of depositaries - Chapter 151A, Section 15A
  In addition to and as an alternative to any other remedy provided by this chapter, and provided that a judgment under any provision of section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Holder of licenses to sell alcoholic beverages; failure to pay amount owed; suspension of license - Chapter 151A, Section 15B
  If any employer is the holder of a license to sell alcoholic beverages and fails to pay any amount required under this chapter within ten...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liens of judgments and overdue contributions; recording and filing of notice; actions to enforce liens - Chapter 151A, Section 16
  Judgments obtained under any provision of section fifteen and overdue contributions or payments in lieu of contributions, with interest thereon or penalties assessed in lieu...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Priority of claims - Chapter 151A, Section 17
  Contributions, payments in lieu of contributions and interest or penalties thereon shall have priority over all other claims against an employer, except wage claims.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adjustment, credit or refund of overpayments; adjustment or additional payment for insufficient contributions; interest - Chapter 151A, Section 18
  If not later than three years after the date of payment of any amount as contributions, payments in lieu of contributions, interest, penalty, or fine,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Final payment to foreign corporations or non-residents; certificate - Chapter 151A, Section 19
  No final payment shall be made by the commonwealth, or by any agency or instrumentality thereof, or by any city, town or county to a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - 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 - Chapter 151A, Section 19A
  (a) Any employer applying to any agency or instrumentality of the commonwealth for a right or license to conduct a profession, trade or business, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Compromise with employers; statement of commissioner filed - Chapter 151A, Section 20
  (a) The commissioner, with the approval of the state advisory council, may enter into agreements of compromise with an employer in respect to any contributions,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Settlement for amount less than owed; conditions; agreements subject to attorney general review; reopening of case - Chapter 151A, Section 20A
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the commissioner may accept a lesser amount than that owed by the employer in full and final...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deductions from income returnable for taxation - Chapter 151A, Section 21
  Contributions made by employers in accordance with this chapter shall be considered ordinary and necessary expenses of the business of the employer, and deductible from...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment in general - Chapter 151A, Section 22
  Benefits shall be payable from the Unemployment Compensation Fund to any individual eligible for benefits under this chapter. Such benefits shall be paid, through the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment; waiting period - Chapter 151A, Section 23
  Benefits shall be paid to an eligible individual for no more than his weeks of unemployment subsequent to a waiting period, the duration of which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eligibility - Chapter 151A, Section 24
  An individual, in order to be eligible for benefits under this chapter, shall— (a) Have been paid wages in the base period amounting to at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Seasonal employment - Chapter 151A, Section 24A
  (a) No waiting period shall be allowed and no benefits shall be paid to an individual on the basis of service performed in seasonal employment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disqualification for benefits - Chapter 151A, Section 25
  No waiting period shall be allowed and no benefits shall be paid to an individual under this chapter for--   (a) Any week in which he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Benefits under law of another state or United States - Chapter 151A, Section 26
  No waiting period shall be served and no benefits shall be paid under this chapter to an individual for any week with respect to which,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1042 - Chapter 151A, Section 27
  Repealed, 1973,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wages not included for benefits - Chapter 151A, Section 28
  Wages earned for services defined in subsection (i) of section six irrespective of when performed, shall not be included in determining eligibility for benefits under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees of commonwealth, political subdivisions, or religious, charitable, educational, or other tax exempt organizations - Chapter 151A, Section 28A
  Benefits based on service in employment as defined in subsections (a) and (d) of section four A shall be payable in the same amount, on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weekly benefit rates; partial unemployment; dependency benefits for children; retirement benefit recipients - Chapter 151A, Section 29
  (a) Any individual in total unemployment and otherwise eligible for benefits whose average weekly wage in his base period is sixty-six dollars or less shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1982, 489, Sec. 6 - Chapter 151A, Section 29A
  Repealed, 1982, 489, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Child support obligations; disclosure; deductions - Chapter 151A, Section 29B
  (a) An individual filing a new claim for unemployment compensation shall, at the time of filing such claim, disclose whether or not the individual owes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 26, Sec. 23 - Chapter 151A, Section 29C
  Repealed, 1992, 26, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Worksharing plan; approval; modification; revocation; benefits - Chapter 151A, Section 29D
  [ Text of section effective until March 24, 2015. For text effective March 24, 2015, see below.] (a) As used in this section the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notification to claimants; tax liability and withholding - Chapter 151A, Section 29E
  (a) The deputy director shall notify in writing each individual who files a new initial claim for benefits under this chapter, at the time of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Uncollected overissuance of food stamp coupons; disclosure; deductions - Chapter 151A, Section 29F
  (a) An individual filing a new initial claim for unemployment benefits shall, at the time of filing such claim, disclose whether or not he owes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Total benefits for year; industrial or vocational retraining; solvency account charge; trade readjustment allowance - Chapter 151A, Section 30
  (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the total benefits which an unemployed individual may receive during his benefit year shall be an amount equal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Extended benefits program - Chapter 151A, Section 30A
  (1) As used in this section the following words and phrases shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— (a) “Extended benefit...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional benefits - Chapter 151A, Section 30B
  (a) An individual whose eligibility or continued eligibility for unemployment benefits pursuant to the Federal Supplemental Compensation Act of 1982 is terminated solely because of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1983, 2, Sec. 1 - Chapter 151A, Section 30C
  Repealed, 1983, 2, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Benefits in a subsequent benefit year - Chapter 151A, Section 31
  No individual may receive benefits in a subsequent benefit year unless, since the beginning of the previous benefit year during which he received benefits, he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1951, 763, Sec. 14 - Chapter 151A, Section 32
  Repealed, 1951, 763, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1943, 534, Sec. 4 - Chapter 151A, Section 33
  Repealed, 1943, 534, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1951, 763, Sec. 14 - Chapter 151A, Section 34
  Repealed, 1951, 763, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Waiver of rights; agreement to pay contributions or payments in lieu of contributions; deduction from wages; enforcement - Chapter 151A, Section 35
  Except as provided in the second paragraph, no agreement by an individual to waive his right to benefits or any other right under this chapter,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assigning, encumbering or releasing benefits; exemption from claims of creditors; exception - Chapter 151A, Section 36
  Benefits which are or may become due under this chapter shall not be assigned, pledged, encumbered, released, commuted or trusteed before payment; and when paid...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees and representation in proceedings under statute; solicitation of business of representing claimant - Chapter 151A, Section 37
  No fee shall be charged in any proceeding under this chapter by the commissioner or any of his agents or representatives. In any proceeding under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Claims, reports, notices and returns, in general; notice of claimant’s failure to report for work - Chapter 151A, Section 38
  (a) Benefit claims shall be filed at the employment office at which the claimant has registered as unemployed. The commissioner shall prescribe the form, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of benefits resulting from failure of employing unit to timely or adequately respond to department request for information - Chapter 151A, Section 38A
  [ Text of section added by 2013, 118, Sec. 11 effective October 29, 2013.](a) If the director, or the director's authorized representative, determines, after providing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of claim and benefits; procedures; payment of claims or denials; default in payment of contributions - Chapter 151A, Section 39
  (a) The commissioner or his authorized representative shall promptly determine, in accordance with the procedures established by the commissioner, and after making such inquiries and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for review - Chapter 151A, Section 40
  A claimant or interested party may, within thirty days after mailing to him of notice of the decision, file an application for a review of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Review by board; procedures; findings of fact; decision; judicial review - Chapter 151A, Section 41
  (a) Unless such application for review is withdrawn, the board of review shall make a preliminary examination of the record of the hearing afforded by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial review; procedures; appeals; rules - Chapter 151A, Section 42
  The commissioner or any interested person aggrieved by any decision in any proceeding before the board of review may obtain judicial review of such decision...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner represented by attorney general or designated attorney - Chapter 151A, Section 42A
  In any action to enforce any provision of this chapter, or any criminal proceedings thereunder, the commissioner shall be represented by the attorney general, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Modification or reversal of decision; recovery of payments - Chapter 151A, Section 42B
  If any determination under section thirty-nine, or any decision under section thirty-nine, forty-one or forty-two, is finally modified or reversed, any benefits which have been...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administering oaths; depositions; certifications; witnesses; production of evidence; contempt; self-incrimination - Chapter 151A, Section 43
  In the discharge of the duties prescribed by this chapter, the commissioner and the members of the board of review and of the state advisory...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accounts for employers; records for employees; disposition of papers; summaries; reproductions - Chapter 151A, Section 44
  (a) The commissioner shall maintain a separate account for each employer, crediting his account with all the contributions which he has paid during each year....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records and reports of employing units; verification - Chapter 151A, Section 45
  Every employing unit shall keep true and accurate records of all individuals employed by him and such other information as the commissioner deems necessary for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1976, 473, Sec. 16 - Chapter 151A, Section 45A
  Repealed, 1976, 473, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confidential information; admissibility as evidence; exceptions to disclosure restrictions - Chapter 151A, Section 46
  (a) Except as provided in this section, information secured pursuant to this chapter is confidential and for the exclusive use and information of the department...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False statements or misrepresentations; punishment; evidence; restitution - Chapter 151A, Section 47
  Any person who knowingly makes any false or misleading statement, representation or submission or knowingly assists, abets, solicits or conspires in the making of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Utterance or delivery of insufficient funds check with intent to defraud; punishment - Chapter 151A, Section 47A
  Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters or delivers any check, draft or order for the payment of any amount required under this chapter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment; composition; benefits payable from pooled money - Chapter 151A, Section 48
  There is hereby established, separate and apart from all public moneys or funds of the commonwealth, an Unemployment Compensation Fund, which shall be administered by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vested rights - Chapter 151A, Section 49
  No person shall be or be deemed to be vested with any property or other right by virtue of the enactment of this chapter.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Treasurer; clearing account; fund account; deposit with United States secretary of the treasury - Chapter 151A, Section 50
  (a) The state treasurer shall be, ex officio, the treasurer of the Unemployment Compensation Fund. He shall maintain within the Unemployment Compensation Fund two separate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requisition from trust fund; transfer to commissioner - Chapter 151A, Section 51
  The state treasurer shall from time to time requisition from said Unemployment Trust Fund such amounts, not exceeding the amounts standing to the commonwealth’s account...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Benefit account - Chapter 151A, Section 52
  All moneys requisitioned from the commonwealth’s account in the Unemployment Trust Fund in the United States treasury and received by the commissioner from the state...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unclaimed balance in benefit account - Chapter 151A, Section 53
  Any balance of moneys requisitioned from the Unemployment Trust Fund which remains unclaimed or unpaid in the benefit account after the expiration of the period...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unemployment Trust Fund; money credited to commonwealth’s account; use; records - Chapter 151A, Section 53A
  [ First paragraph effective until March 24, 2015. For text effective March 24, 2015, see below.] Money credited to the commonwealth's account in the Unemployment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Depositaries; insurance charge; commingling funds - Chapter 151A, Section 54
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, moneys in the clearing and benefit accounts and the contingent fund may be deposited in any depositary bank...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond of commissioner; premiums paid from administrative account - Chapter 151A, Section 55
  The commissioner shall give a bond conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties with respect to the benefit account in an amount not exceeding...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Trust fund; administration upon cessation of Unemployment Compensation Fund or federal separate book account; investments - Chapter 151A, Section 56
  The provisions of this chapter, to the extent that they relate to the Unemployment Compensation Fund, shall be operative only so long as such Unemployment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requisitions from state trust fund; investment board; deposits; investments; assistance - Chapter 151A, Section 57
  In the event of the provisions contained in section fifty-six becoming operative (a) The commissioner shall from time to time requisition from the state treasurer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment security administration account; monies received; disposition - Chapter 151A, Section 58
  (a) There is hereby created the employment security administration account, hereinafter called the account, to consist of all moneys (1) Appropriated by the commonwealth for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contingent fund; establishment; composition; expenditures; transfer - Chapter 151A, Section 58A
  There is hereby established a special fund to be known as the contingent fund which shall be maintained by the state treasurer separate and apart...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability on state treasurer’s bond - Chapter 151A, Section 59
  The state treasurer, in addition to the provisions contained in section two of chapter ten, shall be liable on the treasurer’s bond for the faithful...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Federal moneys allotted to commonwealth paid into accounts - Chapter 151A, Section 60
  All federal moneys allotted or apportioned to the commonwealth by the Federal Social Security Board, the Federal Railroad Retirement Board, or other federal agency, for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special employment service accounts; agreements relative to employment offices; acceptance of moneys, services or quarters - Chapter 151A, Section 61
  Special employment service accounts shall be maintained as a part of the account, for the purpose of segregating such money as may be made available...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State advisory council; duties, powers and reports - Chapter 151A, Section 62
  The state advisory council shall perform all the duties imposed on it by this chapter, and, in addition, shall consider and advise the commissioner upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unemployment compensation; orientation; notice; initiation of claim - Chapter 151A, Section 62A
  (a) The division of unemployment assistance shall provide a minimum level of in-person assistance at the following regional offices: Worcester, Milford, Dudley, Springfield, Gardner, Greenfield,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Publication and free distribution of statutes, reports, regulations and relevant material - Chapter 151A, Section 63
  The commissioner, subject to the approval of the commission on administration and finance, shall cause to be printed in proper form for distribution to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports and information for federal, commonwealth and political subdivision agencies; confidential information; federal regulations governing expenditures - Chapter 151A, Section 64
  (a) The commissioner shall make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the secretary of labor may from time to time require,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - List of employers qualified for exemption under Sec. 5I of chapter 59; confidentiality - Chapter 151A, Section 64A
  The commissioner shall on or before July first of each year provide to the chairman of the board of assessors in each city and town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records available to federal railroad retirement board; cooperation with federal agencies; agreements relative to employment offices; acceptance of moneys, services or quarters - Chapter 151A, Section 65
  The commissioner may make the commonwealth’s records relating to the administration of this chapter available to the Federal Railroad Retirement Board and may furnish said...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal arrangements with other states and federal government; reimbursements; investigations; exchange of information, services and facilities; benefits based on combined coverages - Chapter 151A, Section 66
  The commissioner is hereby authorized to enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the federal government, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Arrangements for utilizing facilities and services of commonwealth and foreign countries - Chapter 151A, Section 66A
  To the extent permissible under the laws and constitution of the United States, the commissioner is authorized to enter into or co-operate in arrangements whereby...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Estimate of liability of employer failing to make report or return; collection - Chapter 151A, Section 67
  If any employer shall wilfully fail or refuse to make any report or return as required by any provision of this chapter or of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of benefits due a deceased or mentally incapacitated person - Chapter 151A, Section 68
  The commissioner may provide for the payment, to such person or persons as the commissioner finds entitled thereto, of benefits due a deceased person, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recovery or deduction of erroneous payments; cancellation; liability of disbursing officer; penalty for misrepresentation of material fact or failure to disclose material fact - Chapter 151A, Section 69
  (a) The department may recover by a civil action any amounts paid to an individual through error, or, in the discretion of the commissioner, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Charging off uncollectible amounts - Chapter 151A, Section 69A
  The commissioner, upon certification to the state advisory council, may charge off any delinquent contributions, payments in lieu of contributions, interest, or penalties at any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Set-off against refunds; notice; review - Chapter 151A, Section 69B
  In addition to any other remedy provided by this chapter, the commissioner may request that the amount payable to the department by an individual resulting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reduction of back pay award due to receipt of unemployment benefits; notice to commissioner; reimbursement of unemployment compensation fund - Chapter 151A, Section 69C
  (a) If a back pay award to an individual is reduced because of the receipt of unemployment benefits by the individual, the employer against whom...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Final decision - Chapter 151A, Section 69D
  As used in this section, the term “final” shall mean that: (1) there is no pending hearing or appeal under section 39 to 42, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Extent of application of rulings - Chapter 151A, Section 70
  The commissioner may prescribe to what extent any ruling or decision may be applied without retroactive effect.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reconsideration of determinations; limitations; notice; appeals - Chapter 151A, Section 71
  The commissioner may reconsider a determination whenever he finds that (1) an error has occurred in connection therewith; or (2) wages of the claimant pertinent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 151A, 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 the following meanings:— “Advance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Closing of facility; report; certification; notice; hearing; appeal - Chapter 151A, Section 71B
  (a) Every employer who is closing a facility, as defined in section seventy-one A, shall thereupon promptly report to the commissioner, in such form and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Partial closings; identification; regulations; eligibility for reemployment assistance benefits - Chapter 151A, Section 71C
  Subject to appropriation, the commissioner shall, in consultation with the Massachusetts industrial advisory board, identify and assess various categories of partial closings. Subsequently, the commissioner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reemployment assistance program - Chapter 151A, Section 71D
  Subject to appropriation, the director of career services, in coordination with the secretary and with any other appropriate agency, shall establish a reemployment assistance program...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reemployment Assistance Fund; Health Insurance Benefits Fund - Chapter 151A, Section 71E
  There is hereby established a Reemployment Assistance Fund and a Health Insurance Benefits Fund which shall be administered by the commissioner, without liability on the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eligibility for reemployment assistance benefits - Chapter 151A, Section 71F
  (a) An employee shall be eligible to receive reemployment assistance benefits with respect to any week of unemployment in his or her eligibility period, as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eligibility for health insurance benefits - Chapter 151A, Section 71G
  (a) An employee eligible to receive reemployment assistance benefits under section seventy-one F shall also be eligible to receive health insurance benefits during his or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plant closing employers; bills for reemployment assistance benefits - Chapter 151A, Section 71H
  (a) At the end of each calendar month, or at the end of any other period as determined by the commissioner, the commissioner shall bill...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1998, 481, Sec. 5 - Chapter 151A, Section 71I
  Repealed, 1998, 481, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction of action to enforce statute; entry fee in actions and proceedings - Chapter 151A, Section 72
  The supreme judicial or superior court shall have general jurisdiction of a civil action brought by the commissioner, to enforce any provisions of this chapter....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Partial invalidity - Chapter 151A, Section 73
  If any part, section or subdivision of this chapter, or the application thereof, shall be held invalid, unconstitutional or inoperative as to any particular person,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Title of statute; construction; purpose - Chapter 151A, Section 74
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Unemployment Insurance Law, and shall be construed liberally in aid of its purpose, which...

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