Iowa Administrative Code
Agency 871 - WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Chapter 24 - CLAIMS AND BENEFITS
Rule 871-24.1 - Definitions
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 19, March 20, 2024
Unless the context otherwise requires, the terms used in these rules shall have the following meaning. All terms which are defined in Iowa Code chapter 96 shall be construed as they are defined in Iowa Code chapter 96.
(1) Additional claim. An application for determination of eligibility filed on an established claim which follows a period of employment.
(2) Administrative office (state). Same as central office.
(3)Agent state. The state in which a worker claims benefits against another (liable) state through the facilities of the state employment security agency. See also liable state.
(4) Reserved.
(5) Annual benefit amount. See maximum annual benefits under benefits.
(6) Appeals. See rule 871-26.1(96).
This subrule is intended to implement Iowa Code section 96.6(4).
(7) Applicant. Any individual applying for work at a workforce development center.
(8) and (9) Reserved.
(10) Average weekly wages. See wages.
(11) Base period. The period of time in which the amount of wages paid to an individual in insured work which determines an individual's eligibility for, and the amount and duration of, benefits. The base period consists of the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the calendar quarter in which the individual's claim for benefits is effective with the following exception. The department shall exclude three or more calendar quarters from the individual's base period in which the individual received workers' compensation or indemnity insurance benefits and substitute consecutive calendar quarters immediately preceding the base period in which the individual did not receive workers' compensation or indemnity insurance benefits. This exception applies under the following conditions:
(12) Base period employer and chargeable employer.
(13) Benefit amount.
(14) Benefit decision. The decision reached by a lower or higher appeals authority with respect to an appealed claim. See also benefit determination, under determination.
(15) Benefit determination. See determination.
(16) Benefit eligibility conditions. Statutory requirements which must be satisfied by an individual with respect to each week of unemployment before benefits can be received.
(17) Benefit formula. The combination of mathematical factors specified in the state employment security law as the basis for computing an individual's weekly benefit amount and maximum benefit amount.
(18) Benefits. Money payments to an individual with respect to unemployment.
(19) Benefit wages. See wages.
(20) Benefit year. That period to which the limitation of maximum duration of benefits is applicable, a year or approximately a year.
(21) Benefit year, individual. The benefit year is a period of 365 days (366 in a leap year) beginning with and including the starting date of the benefit year. The starting date of the benefit year is always on Sunday and is the Sunday of the current week in which the claimant first files a valid claim.
(22) Calendar week. See week.
(23) Central office. The state administrative office of the division of unemployment insurance services of the department of workforce development.
(24) Reserved.
(25) Claim. A request for benefit payment; also used to mean any notice filed by an individual to establish insured status or a notice filed by an individual to inform the administrative agency of the individual's unemployment.
(26) Claimant.
(27) Reserved.
(28) Claim series. A series of claims filed for continuous weeks of unemployment or for a period of unemployment during which the lapse in compensability or in reporting is deemed by the state insufficient to interrupt the series.
(29) Compensable claim. See claim.
(30) Compensable week. See week.
(31) Compensation. Same as benefits.
(32) Contested claim. See claim.
(33) Continued claim. See claim.
(34) Covered employment. Same as insured work.
(35) Covered worker. An individual who has earned wages in insured work.
(36) Day. The period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
(37) Department. The chief executive officer of the department of workforce development is the director who shall be appointed by the governor with the approval of two-thirds of the members of the senate. It shall be the duty of the director to administer Iowa Code chapter 96.
(38) Determination.
(39) Disqualification provisions. Those provisions of a state employment security law that set forth the conditions that bar an individual from receiving benefits for a specified period or cancel or reduce the individual's benefits or credits.
(40) Duration of benefits. The number of weeks for which benefits are paid or payable for total unemployment in a benefit year. Because there may be deductible wages and other compensation, duration is often described in terms of the total amount of benefits arrived at by multiplying the weekly benefit amount by the number of weeks of total unemployment.
(41) Earnings limit. An amount equal to the weekly benefit amount plus $15.
(42) Eligibility requirements. Same as benefit eligibility conditions.
(43) Employment interview. A conversation between an applicant and an interviewer directed toward obtaining and recording information pertinent to classification and selection, and giving information pertinent to job seeking.
(44) Employment office. An office maintained by the department of workforce development in accordance with Iowa Code sections 96.12 and 96.25.
(45) Employment security administration fund. See funds.
(46) Employment security law. A body of law which establishes a free public employment service, or a system of unemployment insurance, or both and which may also establish other systems compensating for wage loss, such as temporary disability insurance in Iowa Code chapter 96.
(47) Employment security program. The federal-state program comprising public employment services and unemployment insurance.
(48) Fact-finding interview. A face-to-face or telephonic discussion between interested parties and a department representative for the purpose of obtaining from the claimant a statement containing information on a specific eligibility or disqualification issue. This differs from an eligibility review interview in that a specific issue must exist as a result of a statement made by either the claimant, the liable state, an employer, or the staff of the department.
(49) First UI, UCFE, or UCX payment. A payment issued to a claimant for the first compensable week of unemployment in a benefit year.
(50) Full-time week. See week.
(51) Funds.
(52) Handbook. The handbook for interstate claims-taking provided by the Employment and Training Administration of the United States Department of Labor.
(53) High quarter formula. See benefit formula.
(54) to (56) Reserved.
(57) Individual base period. See base period.
(58) Individual benefit year. See benefit year.
(59) Initial claim. See claim.
(60) Initial determination. See determination.
(61) Insured unemployment. Unemployment during a given week for which benefits are claimed under the state employment security program, the unemployment compensation for federal employees program, the unemployment compensation for veterans program, or the railroad unemployment insurance program.
(62) Insured work. Employment, as defined in a state employment security law, performed for a subject employer, or federal employment as defined in the Social Security Act.
(63) Insured worker. An individual who has had sufficient insured work in such individual's base period to meet the employment requirements for receipt of benefits under a state employment security law.
(64) Interstate agreement.
(65) Interstate claim. See claim.
(66) Interstate claimant. An individual who files a claim for benefits in an agent state on the basis of employment covered by the employment security law of a liable state.
(67) Benefit rights information. Information provided to a claimant for the purpose of explaining the claimant's rights and responsibilities under the law. Such information may be given on a group basis or on an individual basis or the information may be provided electronically.
(68) Office. Rescinded IAB 8/16/17, effective 9/20/17.
(69) lag quarter. The completed quarter between a claimant's base period and the quarter which includes the beginning date of such claimant's benefit year.
(70) layoffs. See separations.
(71) liable state. Any state against which a worker claims benefits through the facilities of a workforce development center or the job service division of another (agent) state. See also agent state.
(72) Mail claim. Rescinded IAB 8/16/17, effective 9/20/17.
(73) Mass separation. The separation from a given employing unit of a large number of workers at approximately the same time and for a reason common to all such workers.
(74) Mass separation notice. A report of a mass separation sent to the local workforce development center by an employer, stating the number of workers separated and listing their names and other required data. Such a notice serves as a substitute for individual separation notices.
(75) Maximum benefit amount. The maximum total amount of benefits an individual may receive during the individual's benefit year.
(76) Maximum benefits. The maximum total amount of benefits payable to a claimant during the claimant's benefit year.
(77) Maximum weekly benefit amount. See benefit amount.
(78) Microfiche. Rescinded IAB 8/6/03, effective 9/10/03.
(79) Military separations. See separations.
(80) Minimum weekly benefit amount. See benefit amount.
(81) Month. The time beginning with any day of one month to the corresponding day of the next month, or if there is no corresponding day, then through the last day of the next month.
(82) Multistate worker. An individual who performs service for one employer in more than one state.
(83) New claim. See claim.
(84) Noncovered employment. Excluded employment, or employment for an employer below the size-of-firm coverage requirements of the state employment security law.
(85) Notice of separation. A report submitted by an employer at the time when a worker is separated from employment, on which the employer indicates the dates of the last day worked, the separation date and the reason the worker was separated.
(86) Odd job earnings. Any earnings which a claimant may have during a week of unemployment as a result of temporary work with an employing unit other than the claimant's regular employing unit.
(87) Opening. A single job for which a workforce development center has on file a request to select and refer an applicant or applicants.
(88) Outstanding job order request. An active request for referral of one or more applicants to fill one or more job openings in a single occupational classification; also, the record of such request.
(89) Clearance order. Rescinded IAB 8/6/03, effective 9/10/03.
(90) Partial benefits. Benefits payable to an individual for a week of partial unemployment.
(91) Partial earnings allowance. The amount of earnings that are disregarded in calculating a claimant's benefit for a week.
(92) Partial unemployment. See week of unemployment.
(93) Part-time worker. A person engaged in, or available only for, part-time work.
(94) Placement. An acceptance by an employer of a person for a job as a direct result of workforce development center activities, provided the employment office has completed all of the following four steps: receipt of an order, prior to referral; selection of the person to be referred without designation by the employer of any particular individual or group of individuals; referral; and verification from a reliable source, preferably the employer, that a person referred has been hired by the employer and has entered on the job.
(95) Reserved.
(96) Qualifying employment. The amount of insured work which an individual must have had within a specified period in order to be an insured worker. See also benefit eligibility conditions.
(97) Qualifying wages. See wages.
(98) Quits. See separations.
(99) Railroad unemployment insurance account. An account, established pursuant to the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, maintained in the federal unemployment trust fund for the payment of benefits provided in that Act.
(100) Readout. Printed data from the claimant database or other types of records stored in the computer.
(101) Reciprocal coverage agreement. See interstate agreements.
(102) Reconsidered determination. Same as redetermination-see determination.
(103) Referee appeals. See appeal, administrative. (Administrative law judge)
(104) Referral. The act of arranging to bring to the attention of an employer (or another workforce development center) the qualifications of an applicant who is available for a job opening on file for which the applicant has been selected by a workforce development center.
(105) Registration. The process of applying for work through an office of the department of workforce development.
(106) Report to determine liability. Same as status report.
(107) Reporting requirements. The rules of procedures of the department of workforce development concerning the frequency and time of required reporting by claimants.
(108) Renewal. The transfer from the inactive to the active file of the application of an applicant who is again considered to be available for referral to job openings.
(109) Request for determination of insured status. A request by an individual for a determination of insured status.
(110) Selection. The process of choosing a qualified applicant for referral to a job by carefully analyzing and comparing employer requirements with applicant interests and abilities.
(111) Self-employment.
(112) Self-filing (of claim). The partial or complete filling out of a claim form or request for determination of insured status by the claimant.
(113) Separations. All terminations of employment, generally classifiable as layoffs, quits, discharges, or other separations.
(114) Short-time placement. A placement in a job which the employer expects to involve work in each of three days or less, whether or not consecutive.
(115) Social security number. The identification number assigned to an individual by the Social Security Administration under the Social Security Act.
(116) Status determination. See determination.
(117) Supplemental benefit payment. A payment issued for the sole purpose of adjusting an underpayment for one or more previous weeks.
(118) Taxable wages. See wages.
(119) Total unemployment. See week of unemployment.
(120) Reserved.
(121) Transient. Rescinded IAB 1/3/18, effective 2/7/18.
(122) Unemployment fund. See funds.
(123) Unemployment trust fund. See funds.
(124) Unemployment trust fund account. See accounts.
(125) Valid claim. See claim.
(126) Verification. The determination from a reliable source, preferably the employer, whether an applicant referred by a workforce development center has been hired by the employer and has entered on the job. In the case of applicants referred to seasonal agricultural openings, verification is considered complete when it is confirmed that a referred worker has been hired, even though confirmation of the worker's entry on the job may be lacking.
(127) Visiting claimant. Rescinded IAB 1/3/18, effective 2/7/18.
(128) Wage combining agreement. See interstate agreement.
(129) Wage credits. Wages earned in insured work.
(130) Wages. Average weekly wages.
(131) Qualifying wages. The amount of wages a worker must have earned in insured work within a specified period in order to be an insured worker. See also benefit eligibility conditions.
(132) Taxable wages. Wages subject to contribution under a state employment security law, or wages subject to tax under the federal Unemployment Tax Act.
(133) Reserved.
(134) Weekly indemnity insurance benefits. Payment for nonoccupational illness or injury pursuant to a benefit plan implemented by an employer.
(135) Week. A seven-day period beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday and terminating at midnight on the following Saturday.
(136) Weekly benefit amount. See benefit amount, or,
(137) Weekly benefit amount. The compensation payable to an individual, with respect to employment, under the employment security law of any state.
(138) Week of unemployment. A week in which an individual performs less than full-time work for any employing unit if the wages payable with respect to such week are less than a specified amount (usually the weekly benefit amount), or,
(139) Week of unemployment. A week during which an individual performs no work and earns no wages, except as indicated and has earnings which do not exceed the earnings limit.
(140) Workload. The measure of the volume of work for each functional area of the state agency; i.e., the number of contribution (payroll) reports processed, the number of claims taken, the number of applications for employment.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code sections 96.3(5), 96.3(7), 96.4(3), 96.5(5) "c, " 96.6, 96.7(2)"a"(2), 96.11, 96.19(16), and 96.23.