Section 172-4-A - DEFINITIONSAs used in this subsection, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
1. "Interstate benefit payment plan" means the plan approved by the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies under which benefits shall be payable to unemployed individuals absent from the state (or states) in which benefit credits have been accumulated.2. "Interstate claimant" means an individual who claims benefits under the unemployment insurance law of one or more liable states through the facilities of an agent state. The term "interstate claimant" shall not include any individual who customarily commutes from a residence in an agent state to work in a liable state unless the bureau finds that this exclusion would create undue hardship on such claimants in specified areas.3. "State" includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands.4. "Agent state" means any state in which an individual files a claim for benefits from another state.5. "Liable state" means any state against which an individual files, through another state, a claim for benefits.6. "Benefits" means the compensation payable to an individual, with respect to his unemployment, under the unemployment insurance law of any state.7. "Week of unemployment" means any week of unemployment as defined in the law of the liable state from which benefits with respect to such week are claimed.12- 172 C.M.R. ch. 4, § A