Section 219-5-003 - DefinitionsAs used in this regulation, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
A. "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.B. "Interstate Claimant" means an individual who claims benefits under the unemployment insurance law of a liable state from another state, through the facilities of an agent state, or directly with the liable state. The term "interstate claimant" shall not include any individual who customarily commutes across state lines from a residence in one state to work in a liable state unless the Department finds that this exclusion would create undue hardship on such claimants in specified areas.C. "State" includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.D. "Agent State" means any state through whose facilities an individual files an interstate initial claim for benefits against another state.E. "Liable State" means any state against which an individual files, through another state, an interstate claim for benefits.F. "Benefits" means the compensation payable to an individual, with respect to his unemployment, under the unemployment insurance law of any state.G. "Week of unemployment" includes any week of unemployment as defined in the law of the liable state from which benefits with respect to such week are claimed.219 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 5, § 003