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Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 71-5-1. Citation and purpose - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 71-5-3. Public policy - As a guide to the interpretation and application of this...
§ 71-5-5. Suspension under federal conditions - The Legislature finds and declares that the existence and continued...
§ 71-5-7. Suspension under state conditions - If at any time the provisions of this chapter requiring...
§ 71-5-9. Refunds upon termination - Refunds provided under Sections 71-5-5 and 71-5-7 shall not be...
§ 71-5-11. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...
§ 71-5-15. Non-liability of state - Benefits shall be deemed to be due and payable under...
§ 71-5-21. Saving clause - The legislature reserves the right to amend or repeal all...
Article 3 - Mississippi Department of Employment Security
§ 71-5-101. Organization - There is established the Mississippi Department of Employment Security, Office...
§ 71-5-107. Executive officer - The department shall administer this chapter through a full-time salaried...
§ 71-5-109. Board of review - There is created a Board of Review consisting of three...
§ 71-5-111. Employment security administration fund - There is created in the State Treasury a special fund...
§ 71-5-112. Funds to clear through state treasury; laws governing expenditures - All funds received by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security...
§ 71-5-113. Funds received from the Social Security Board - All monies received from the Social Security Board or its...
§ 71-5-114. Special employment security administration fund - There is created in the State Treasury a special fund,...
§ 71-5-115. Duties and powers of executive director - It shall be the duty of the executive director to...
§ 71-5-116. Annual report tracking data from contractors to be used to improve workforce training programs - The Mississippi Department of Employment Security will develop an annual...
§ 71-5-117. Regulations and general rules - General rules may be adopted, amended or rescinded by the...
§ 71-5-119. Publication - The department shall cause to be available for distribution to...
§ 71-5-121. Personnel - Subject to other provisions of this chapter, the executive director...
§ 71-5-123. Advisory councils - The executive director shall retain all powers and duties as...
§ 71-5-125. Promotion of employment - The department shall take all appropriate steps to reduce and...
§ 71-5-129. Destruction of useless records - Records hereinafter designated, which are found by the department to...
§ 71-5-131. Privileged communications - All letters, reports, communications, or any other matters, either oral...
§ 71-5-133. Failure to produce records - In any case where an employing unit or any officer,...
§ 71-5-135. Failure to make reports - If any employing unit fails to make any report required...
§ 71-5-137. Oaths and witnesses - In the discharge of the duties imposed by this chapter,...
§ 71-5-139. Subpoenas - In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena...
§ 71-5-141. Protection against self-incrimination - No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or...
§ 71-5-143. State-federal cooperation - In the administration of this chapter, the department shall cooperate,...
§ 71-5-145. 1235 Echelon Parkway named the Henry J. Kirksey Building - The building located at 1235 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi,...
Article 5 - Employment Service
§ 71-5-201. State employment service - The Mississippi State Employment Service is established in the Mississippi...
§ 71-5-203. Financing - All moneys received by this state under the said act...
Article 7 - Contributions
§ 71-5-351. Payment of contributions; participation in the Mississippi Level Payment Plan (MLPP) - In the payment of any contributions, a fractional part of...
§ 71-5-353. Rate of contributions; reduction in contribution rate for certain employers; distribution of contributions; suspension of Workforce Enhancement Training contributions under certain circumstances - 1. Unemployment contributions; 2. Mississippi Workforce Enhancement Training contributions, State...
§ 71-5-355. Modified rates - The CRC shall be computed as the average for the...
§ 71-5-357. Regulations governing nonprofit organizations - Benefits paid to employees of nonprofit organizations shall be financed...
§ 71-5-359. Regulations governing state boards, instrumentalities, and political subdivisions - The reimbursement of benefits paid by the Mississippi Department of...
§ 71-5-363. Interest on past due contributions - Contributions unpaid on the date on which they are due...
§ 71-5-365. Failure to make reports and pay contributions - If any employer fails to make and file any report...
§ 71-5-367. Collection by warrant - If an employer shall file a report in proper form...
§ 71-5-369. Jeopardy assessment and warrant - If the commission has just cause to believe and does...
§ 71-5-371. Liability of sheriff for failure to execute warrant - If any sheriff shall fail to return any warrant directed...
§ 71-5-373. Defaulting employer - An employer liable for contributions under the provisions of this...
§ 71-5-375. Contributions a lien - The contributions required by this chapter shall be a lien...
§ 71-5-377. Priorities under legal dissolutions or distributions - In the event of any distribution of an employer's assets...
§ 71-5-379. Collection by suit - If, after due notice, an employer defaults in any payment...
§ 71-5-381. No injunction allowed to restrain collection - No injunction shall be awarded by any court or judge...
§ 71-5-383. Refunds - The commission is authorized and empowered to refund, without interest,...
§ 71-5-385. Requesting permission to file reports in special format; regulations; penalty - Any employer may request permission to file unemployment compensation wage...
§ 71-5-391. Use of administrative funds for payment of fees associated with receipt of electronic payments - The executive director of the department may use available administrative...
Article 9 - Unemployment Compensation Fund
§ 71-5-451. Establishment and control - There is established as a special fund, separate and apart...
§ 71-5-453. Accounts and deposits - The department shall be the treasurer and custodian of the...
§ 71-5-455. Withdrawals - Monies shall be requisitioned from this state's account in the...
§ 71-5-457. Unemployment trust fund used for payment of administrative expenses - For the purposes of this section, amounts obligated during any...
§ 71-5-459. Management of funds upon discontinuance of unemployment trust fund - The provisions of Sections 71-5-451 through 71-5-459, to the extent...
Article 11 - Benefits
§ 71-5-501. Payment - Wages earned for services defined in Section 71-5-11(I)(15)(g), irrespective of...
§ 71-5-503. Weekly benefit amount - An individual's weekly benefit amount for a benefit year shall...
§ 71-5-505. Weekly compensation for unemployment - In determining whether an eligible individual is unemployed during a...
§ 71-5-507. Duration - Any otherwise eligible individual shall be entitled during any benefit...
§ 71-5-509. Seasonal workers - Click to view Operating Period ofSeasonal Industry Wages Earned in...
§ 71-5-511. Eligibility conditions - An unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with...
§ 71-5-513. Disqualifications - A. An individual shall be disqualified for benefits: The department...
§ 71-5-515. Filing - Claims for benefits shall be made in accordance with such...
§ 71-5-517. Initial determination - Upon the taking of a claim by the department, an...
§ 71-5-519. Appeals - Unless such appeal is withdrawn, an appeal tribunal appointed by...
§ 71-5-521. Appeal tribunals - To hear and decide appealed claims, the board of review...
§ 71-5-523. Board of review - The Board of Review may on its own motion affirm,...
§ 71-5-525. Procedure - The manner in which appealed claims shall be presented and...
§ 71-5-527. Witness fees - Witnesses subpoenaed pursuant to Sections 71-5-515 through 71-5-533 shall be...
§ 71-5-529. Appeal to courts - Any decision of the Board of Review, in the absence...
§ 71-5-531. Court review - Within ten (10) days after the decision of the Board...
§ 71-5-533. Appeal by commission - The commission shall be authorized to appeal from decisions of...
§ 71-5-535. Waiver of rights void - Any agreement by an individual to waive, release, or commute...
§ 71-5-537. Limitation of fees - No individual claiming benefits shall be charged fees of any...
§ 71-5-539. No assignment of benefits; exemptions - Any assignment, pledge or incumbrance of any right to benefits...
§ 71-5-541. Construction - A. (1) In the administration of this chapter, the department...
§ 71-5-545. Self-Employment Assistance Program - The sum of (a) the allowance paid under this section,...