Accrued benefits due and unpaid on claims filed prior to decease of a claimant may, in the discretion of the commissioner, be paid, without letters of administration, to the surviving spouse, children, or parents of the deceased, in the order of priority enumerated.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 21A. Unemployment Compensation
Article 6. Employee Eligibility; Benefits
§21A-6-1. Eligibility Qualifications
§21A-6-1a. Seasonal Employment
§21A-6-1b. Requalification Requirement
§21A-6-1c. Voluntary Withholding Program
§21A-6-2. Waiting Period Construed
§21A-6-3. Disqualification for Benefits
§21A-6-4. Individual Not Denied Benefits by Receiving Vocational Training
§21A-6-5. Considerations in Determining if Work Is Suitable
§21A-6-6. New Work Not Deemed Suitable
§21A-6-7. When Departments Treated as Separate Establishments With Respect to Labor Disputes
§21A-6-10. Benefit Rate -- Total Unemployment; Annual Computation and Publication of Rates
§21A-6-11. Benefit Rate -- Partial Unemployment
§21A-6-12. Suspension of Partial Benefit Rights
§21A-6-13. Computation of Wage Credits; Determination of Maximum Benefits
§21A-6-14. Payment of Benefits Upon Decease of Claimant
§21A-6-16. Child Support Intercept of Unemployment Benefits
§21A-6-17. Food Stamp Overissuance Intercept of Unemployment Benefits