§1665.3. Combined wage claims; recovery of outstanding overpayment in transferring state
A. The paying state shall:
(1) Offset any outstanding overpayment in a transferring state prior to honoring a request from any other participating state.
(2) Credit the deductions against the statement of benefits paid to combined wage claimants, Form IB-6, or forward a payment to the transferring state.
(3) Refer to the Interstate Benefit Payment Control section in the ET Handbook No. 392, Handbook for Interstate Claimstaking, or any superceding United States Department of Labor requirements for the priorities of offsetting overpayments.
B. Withdrawal of a combined wage claim after benefits have been paid shall be honored only if the combined wage claimant has repaid any benefits paid or authorizes the new liable state to offset the overpayment.
C. The paying state shall issue an overpayment determination and forward a copy, together with an overpayment recovery request and an authorization to offset, to the liable state.
D. The recovering state shall:
(1) Prioritize the offset of overpayments as described in the Interstate Benefit Payment Control section of the ET Handbook No. 392, Handbook for Interstate Claimstaking, or any superceding United States Department of Labor requirements.
(2) Offset the total amount of any overpayment, resulting from the withdrawal of a combined wage claim, prior to the release of any payments to the claimant.
(3) Offset the total amount of any overpayment, resulting from the withdrawal of a combined wage claim, prior to honoring a request from any other participating state.
(4) Provide the claimant with a notice of the amount offset.
(5) Prepare and forward a payment representing the amount recovered to the requesting state.
E. The recovering state shall offset benefits payable under a state unemployment compensation program to recover any benefits overpaid under a federal unemployment compensation program as described in the recovering state's agreement with the United States secretary of labor as provided in this Section, as appropriate, if the recovering state and requesting state have entered into an agreement with the United States secretary of labor to implement Section 303(a) of the Social Security Act.
Acts 2013, No. 48, §1.
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