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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. The following words and phrases as used in...
Section 2 - Service Deemed ''employment''; Exclusions - Section 2. Service performed by an individual, except in such...
Section 3 - Service Within and Without Commonwealth Included in ''employment'' - Section 3. The term ''employment'', except in such cases as...
Section 4a - Service Included in Employment; American Employer; State - Section 4A. The term ''employment'' shall include any service performed...
Section 5 - Services Under Arrangements With Agencies of Other States and Federal Government Included in ''employment'' - Section 5. The term ''employment'' shall include services covered by...
Section 6 - Service Not Included in ''employment'' - Section 6. The term ''employment'' shall not include: (a) service...
Section 6a - Other Service Not Included in ''employment'' - Section 6A. The term ''employment'' shall not include service performed...
Section 8 - Employing Units Subject to Statute - Section 8. Any employing unit, other than one for which...
Section 8a - Other Employing Units Subject to Statute - Section 8A. (a) An employing unit for which services described...
Section 8b - Domestic Service and Agricultural Labor; Employer - Section 8B. (a) The remuneration earned or the employment of...
Section 8c - Crew Leaders; Definition; Employees of Crew Leaders - Section 8C. (a) Crew Leaders who are registered or provide...
Section 9 - Individuals Employed by Unit in Several Places - Section 9. All individuals employed by an employing unit in...
Section 11 - Ceasing to Be Subject to Statute on Application - Section 11. No employer shall cease to be subject to...
Section 12 - Determination Whether Employer Within Statute; Review; Double Costs; Reconsideration - Section 12. The commissioner, upon his own motion, or upon...
Section 13 - Payment of Required Contribution; Secondary Adjustment Payments; Credited to Unemployment Compensation Fund - Section 13. The contributions required hereunder shall be paid to...
Section 14 - Contribution Rates in General; Contributions in General; Definitions; Notice of Payment of Benefit and Potential Charges; Review; Transfer of Business - [ Section impacted by 2020, 81, Secs. 3, 5, 6,...
Section 14a - Nonprofit Organizations and Governmental Employers - [ Section impacted by 2020, 81, Secs. 4 to 6,...
Section 14b - Liability for Payments; Credits; Adjustments - Section 14B. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to...
Section 14c - Contributions by Governmental Employers; Rated Governmental Employers - [ Section impacted by 2020, 81, Secs. 4, 6, 9...
Section 14e - Economic Development Fund - Section 14E. There is hereby established a separate fund to...
Section 14f - Unemployment Trust Fund; Report Concerning Fund Average and Actual Balance - Section 14F. On or before the fifteenth day of October...
Section 14j.5 - Excise Paid on Employee Wages - [ Text of section added by 2021, 9, Sec. 3...
Section 14k - Federal Loan Interest Fund - [ Text of section effective until April 1, 2021. For...
Section 14l - Work Force Training Contribution Paid by Employers - Section 14L. (a) Each employer liable to pay a contribution...
Section 14m - Benefits Paid to Employees of Indian Tribes - Section 14M. Benefits paid to employees of Indian tribes shall...
Section 14n - Assignment of Contribution Rates and Transfer of Accounts - Section 14N. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the...
Section 14o - Fraud Penalty Fund - Section 14O. There shall be a separate fund to be...
Section 14p - Registration of Employers; Reporting of Employee Information - Section 14P. (a) As used in this section the following...
Section 14q - Collection of Unemployment Compensation Debt by Offset of Federal Tax Refund Payments Through Treasury Offset Program - Section 14Q. The commissioner may enter into an agreement with...
Section 15 - Failure of Employer to Pay Required Amounts When Due; Recovery of Erroneous Payments; Assessments; Enforcement; Collection Pursuant to Treasury Offset Program - Section 15. (a) If any employer fails to pay when...
Section 15a - Collection of Payments; Levy Upon Depositary Accounts; Liability of Depositaries - Section 15A. In addition to and as an alternative to...
Section 15b - Holder of Licenses to Sell Alcoholic Beverages; Failure to Pay Amount Owed; Suspension of License - Section 15B. If any employer is the holder of a...
Section 16 - Liens of Judgments and Overdue Contributions; Recording and Filing of Notice; Actions to Enforce Liens - Section 16. Judgments obtained under any provision of section fifteen...
Section 17 - Priority of Claims - Section 17. Contributions, payments in lieu of contributions and interest...
Section 18 - Adjustment, Credit or Refund of Overpayments; Adjustment or Additional Payment for Insufficient Contributions; Interest - Section 18. If not later than three years after the...
Section 19 - Final Payment to Foreign Corporations or Non-Residents; Certificate - Section 19. No final payment shall be made by the...
Section 19a - 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 - Section 19A. (a) Any employer applying to any agency or...
Section 20 - Compromise With Employers; Statement of Commissioner Filed - Section 20. (a) The commissioner, with the approval of the...
Section 20a - Settlement for Amount Less Than Owed; Conditions; Agreements Subject to Attorney General Review; Reopening of Case - Section 20A. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,...
Section 21 - Deductions From Income Returnable for Taxation - Section 21. Contributions made by employers in accordance with this...
Section 22 - Payment of Benefits in General - Section 22. Benefits shall be payable from the Unemployment Compensation...
Section 23 - Payment of Benefits; Waiting Period - Section 23. Benefits shall be paid to an eligible individual...
Section 24 - Eligibility for Benefits - Section 24. An individual, in order to be eligible for...
Section 24a - Seasonal Employment - Section 24A. (a) No waiting period shall be allowed and...
Section 25 - Disqualification for Benefits - Section 25. No waiting period shall be allowed and no...
Section 26 - Unemployment Benefits Received or Sought Under Laws of Another State or United States - Section 26. No waiting period shall be served and no...
Section 28 - Wages Not Included in Determination of Eligibility for Benefits - Section 28. Wages earned for services defined in subsection (i)...
Section 28a - Employees of Commonwealth, Political Subdivisions, or Religious, Charitable, Educational, or Other Tax Exempt Organizations - Section 28A. Benefits based on service in employment as defined...
Section 28b - Repayment of Unemployment Benefits Overpaid to Certain Officers, Partners, Owners or Other Interest Holders of Employing Unit - Section 28B. If an employee, who is a corporate officer,...
Section 29 - Weekly Benefit Rates; Partial Unemployment; Dependency Benefits for Children; Retirement Benefit Recipients - Section 29. (a) Any individual in total unemployment and otherwise...
Section 29b - Child Support Obligations; Disclosure; Deductions - Section 29B. (a) An individual filing a new claim for...
Section 29d - Worksharing Program; Application and Approval of Worksharing Plan; Benefits - Section 29D. (a) As used in this section the following...
Section 29e - Notification to Claimants; Tax Liability and Withholding - Section 29E. (a) The deputy director shall notify in writing...
Section 29f - Uncollected Overissuance of Food Stamp Coupons; Disclosure; Deductions - Section 29F. (a) An individual filing a new initial claim...
Section 30 - Total Benefits for Year; Industrial or Vocational Retraining; Solvency Account Charge; Trade Readjustment Allowance; Employer's Lockout - Section 30. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the...
Section 30a - Extended Benefits Program - Section 30A. (1) As used in this section the following...
Section 30b - Payment of Additional Benefits Upon Termination of Eligibility for Benefits Pursuant to Federal Supplemental Compensation Act - Section 30B. (a) An individual whose eligibility or continued eligibility...
Section 31 - Benefits in a Subsequent Benefit Year - Section 31. No individual may receive benefits in a subsequent...
Section 35 - Waiver of Rights; Agreement to Pay Contributions or Payments in Lieu of Contributions; Deduction From Wages; Enforcement - Section 35. Except as provided in the second paragraph, no...
Section 36 - Assigning, Encumbering or Releasing Benefits; Exemption From Claims of Creditors; Exception - Section 36. Benefits which are or may become due under...
Section 37 - Fees and Representation in Proceedings Under This Chapter; Solicitation of Business of Representing Claimant - Section 37. No fee shall be charged in any proceeding...
Section 38 - 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 the...
Section 38a - Payment of Benefits Resulting From Failure of Employing Unit to Timely or Adequately Respond to Department Request for Information - Section 38A. (a) If the director, or the director's authorized...
Section 39 - Determination of Claim and Benefits; Procedures; Payment of Claims or Denials; Default in Payment of Contributions - Section 39. (a) The commissioner or his authorized representative shall...
Section 40 - Application for Review - Section 40. A claimant or interested party may, within thirty...
Section 41 - Review by Board; Procedures; Findings of Fact; Decision; Judicial Review - Section 41. (a) Unless such application for review is withdrawn,...
Section 42 - Judicial Review; Procedures; Appeals; Rules - Section 42. The commissioner or any interested person aggrieved by...
Section 42a - Commissioner Represented by Attorney General or Designated Attorney - Section 42A. In any action to enforce any provision of...
Section 42b - Modification or Reversal of Decision; Recovery of Payments - Section 42B. If any determination under section thirty-nine, or any...
Section 43 - Administering Oaths; Depositions; Certifications; Witnesses; Production of Evidence; Contempt; Self-Incrimination - Section 43. In the discharge of the duties prescribed by...
Section 44 - Accounts for Employers; Records for Employees; Disposition of Papers; Summaries; Reproductions - Section 44. (a) The commissioner shall maintain a separate account...
Section 45 - Records and Reports of Employing Units; Verification - Section 45. Every employing unit shall keep true and accurate...
Section 46 - Confidential Information; Admissibility as Evidence; Exceptions to Disclosure Restrictions - Section 46. (a) Except as provided in this section, information...
Section 47 - False Statements or Misrepresentations; Punishment; Evidence; Restitution - Section 47. Any person who knowingly makes any false or...
Section 47a - Utterance or Delivery of Insufficient Funds Check With Intent to Defraud; Punishment - Section 47A. Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters...
Section 48 - Unemployment Compensation Fund; Establishment; Composition; Benefits Payable From Pooled Money - Section 48. There is hereby established, separate and apart from...
Section 49 - Vested Rights - Section 49. No person shall be or be deemed to...
Section 50 - Treasurer of Unemployment Compensation Fund; Clearing Account; Fund Account; Deposit With United States Secretary of the Treasury - Section 50. (a) The state treasurer shall be, ex officio,...
Section 51 - Requisition From Trust Fund; Transfer to Commissioner - Section 51. The state treasurer shall from time to time...
Section 52 - Benefit Account - Section 52. All moneys requisitioned from the commonwealth's account in...
Section 53 - Unclaimed Balance in Benefit Account - Section 53. Any balance of moneys requisitioned from the Unemployment...
Section 53a - Unemployment Trust Fund; Money Credited to Commonwealth's Account; Use; Records - Section 53A. Money credited to the commonwealth's account in the...
Section 54 - Depositaries; Insurance Charge; Commingling Funds - Section 54. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, moneys...
Section 55 - Bond of Commissioner; Premiums Paid From Administrative Account - Section 55. The commissioner shall give a bond conditioned upon...
Section 56 - Trust Fund; Administration Upon Cessation of Unemployment Compensation Fund or Federal Separate Book Account; Investments - Section 56. The provisions of this chapter, to the extent...
Section 57 - Requisitions From State Trust Fund; Investment Board; Deposits; Investments; Assistance - Section 57. In the event of the provisions contained in...
Section 58 - Employment Security Administration Account; Monies Received; Disposition - Section 58. (a) There is hereby created the employment security...
Section 58a - Contingent Fund; Establishment; Composition; Expenditures; Transfer - Section 58A. There is hereby established a special fund to...
Section 59 - Liability on State Treasurer's Bond - Section 59. The state treasurer, in addition to the provisions...
Section 60 - Federal Moneys Allotted to Commonwealth Paid Into Accounts - Section 60. All federal moneys allotted or apportioned to the...
Section 61 - Special Employment Service Accounts; Agreements Relative to Employment Offices; Acceptance of Moneys, Services or Quarters - Section 61. Special employment service accounts shall be maintained as...
Section 62 - State Advisory Council; Duties, Powers and Reports - Section 62. The state advisory council shall perform all the...
Section 62a - In-Person, Telephone and Walk-in Assistance by the Division for Individuals Applying for Unemployment Compensation; Orientation; Notice; Initiation of Claim - Section 62A. (a) The division of unemployment assistance shall provide...
Section 63 - Publication and Free Distribution of Statutes, Reports, Regulations and Relevant Material - Section 63. The commissioner, subject to the approval of the...
Section 64 - Reports and Information for Federal, Commonwealth and Political Subdivision Agencies; Confidential Information; Federal Regulations Governing Expenditures - Section 64. (a) The commissioner shall make such reports, in...
Section 64a - List of Employers Qualified for Exemption Under Sec. 5i of Chapter 59; Confidentiality - Section 64A. The commissioner shall on or before July first...
Section 65 - Records Available to Federal Railroad Retirement Board; Cooperation With Federal Agencies; Agreements Relative to Employment Offices; Acceptance of Moneys, Services or Quarters - Section 65. The commissioner may make the commonwealth's records relating...
Section 66 - Reciprocal Arrangements With Other States and Federal Government; Reimbursements; Investigations; Exchange of Information, Services and Facilities; Benefits Based on Combined Coverages - Section 66. The commissioner is hereby authorized to enter into...
Section 66a - Arrangements for Utilizing Facilities and Services of Commonwealth and Foreign Countries - Section 66A. To the extent permissible under the laws and...
Section 67 - Estimate of Liability of Employer Failing to Make Report or Return; Collection - Section 67. If any employer shall wilfully fail or refuse...
Section 68 - Payment of Benefits Due a Deceased or Mentally Incapacitated Person - Section 68. The commissioner may provide for the payment, to...
Section 69 - Recovery or Deduction of Erroneous Payments; Cancellation; Liability of Disbursing Officer; Penalty for Misrepresentation of Material Fact or Failure to Disclose Material Fact - Section 69. (a) The department may recover by a civil...
Section 69a - Charging Off Uncollectible Amounts - Section 69A. The commissioner, upon certification to the state advisory...
Section 69b - Set-Off Against Refunds; Notice; Review - Section 69B. In addition to any other remedy provided by...
Section 69c - Reduction of Back Pay Award Due to Receipt of Unemployment Benefits; Notice to Commissioner; Reimbursement of Unemployment Compensation Fund - Section 69C. (a) If a back pay award to an...
Section 69d - Final Decision - Section 69D. As used in this section, the term ''final''...
Section 70 - Extent of Application of Rulings - Section 70. The commissioner may prescribe to what extent any...
Section 71 - Reconsideration of Determinations; Limitations; Notice; Appeals - Section 71. The commissioner may reconsider a determination whenever he...
Section 71a - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 71b to 71g - Section 71A. As used in section seventy-one B to seventy-one...
Section 71b - Closing of Facility; Report; Certification; Notice; Hearing; Appeal - Section 71B. (a) Every employer who is closing a facility,...
Section 71c - Partial Closing of Facility; Identification; Regulations; Eligibility for Reemployment Assistance Benefits - Section 71C. Subject to appropriation, the commissioner shall, in consultation...
Section 71d - Reemployment Assistance Program - Section 71D. Subject to appropriation, the director of career services,...
Section 71e - Reemployment Assistance Fund; Health Insurance Benefits Fund - Section 71E. There is hereby established a Reemployment Assistance Fund...
Section 71f - Eligibility for Reemployment Assistance Benefits - Section 71F. (a) An employee shall be eligible to receive...
Section 71g - Eligibility for Health Insurance Benefits - Section 71G. (a) An employee eligible to receive reemployment assistance...
Section 71h - Plant Closing Employers; Bills for Reemployment Assistance Benefits - Section 71H. (a) At the end of each calendar month,...
Section 72 - Jurisdiction of Action to Enforce Statute; Entry Fee in Actions and Proceedings - Section 72. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have...
Section 73 - Severability - Section 73. If any part, section or subdivision of this...
Section 74 - Title of Statute; Construction; Purpose - Section 74. This chapter shall be known and may be...