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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68606</law_id><section_number>60.2-116</section_number><catch_line>Reciprocal agreements</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="60.2">Unemployment Compensation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions and Administration</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Administration</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Subject to the approval of the Governor, the Commission is hereby authorized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or the federal government whereby individuals performing services in this and other states for a single employing unit under circumstances not specifically provided for in &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Employment" href="/60.2-212/">60.2-212</a> through <a class="law" title="Services not included in term &quot;employment.&quot;" href="/60.2-219/">60.2-219</a>, or under similar provisions in the unemployment compensation <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of such other states, shall be deemed to be engaged in employment performed entirely within this Commonwealth or within one of such other states. Such arrangements may set forth terms whereby the potential right to benefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of one or more states or under such a <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the federal government, or both, may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate agency of any state under terms which the Commission finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests and will not result in any substantial loss to the fund. <a id="paragraph-248329" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-116/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Subject to the approval of the Governor, the Commission is also authorized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or of the federal government: <a id="paragraph-248330" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-116/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> a. Whereby wages or services, upon the basis of which an individual may become entitled to benefits under the unemployment compensation <span class="dictionary">law</span> of another state or of the federal government, shall be deemed to be wages for employment by employers for the purposes of &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Weekly benefit amount" href="/60.2-602/">60.2-602</a>, <a class="law" title="Benefits when wages irregular" href="/60.2-606/">60.2-606</a>, <a class="law" title="Maximum total benefit amounts" href="/60.2-607/">60.2-607</a>, <a class="law" title="Reciprocal arrangements with agencies of other states or federal government" href="/60.2-609/">60.2-609</a>, <a class="law" title="Extended benefits defined" href="/60.2-610/">60.2-610</a>, <a class="law" title="Receipt of extended benefits" href="/60.2-611/">60.2-611</a>, subdivision A 1 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Benefit eligibility conditions" href="/60.2-612/">60.2-612</a> and &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service required during immediately preceding benefit year in which individual received benefits" href="/60.2-614/">60.2-614</a> through <a class="law" title="Benefits denied to certain aliens" href="/60.2-617/">60.2-617</a>, provided such other state agency or agency of the federal government has agreed to reimburse the fund for such portion of benefits paid under this title upon the basis of such wages or services as the Commission finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests; and
				b. Whereby the Commission will reimburse other state or federal agencies charged with the administration of unemployment compensation <span class="dictionary">laws</span> with such reasonable portion of benefits, paid under the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of any such other states or of the federal government upon the basis of employment or wages for employment by employers, as the Commission finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests. <a id="paragraph-248331" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-116/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Reimbursements so payable under subdivision 1 b of this subsection shall be deemed to be benefits for the purposes of &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Fund continued; accounts maintained" href="/60.2-300/">60.2-300</a> through <a class="law" title="Disbursements by State Treasurer upon warrants of Comptroller" href="/60.2-304/">60.2-304</a>, but no reimbursement so payable shall be charged against any employer&#x2019;s account for the purposes of &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="General provisions" href="/60.2-526/">60.2-526</a> through <a class="law" title="Experience rating tax; table" href="/60.2-531/">60.2-531</a>. The Commission is hereby authorized to make to other state or federal agencies and receive from such other state or federal agencies, reimbursements from or to the fund, in accordance with arrangements pursuant to this section. <a id="paragraph-248332" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-116/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Subject to the approval of the Governor, the Commission is also authorized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or of the federal government: <a id="paragraph-248333" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-116/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Whereby the Commission may deduct, in accordance with the provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="(Effective July 1, 2028) Receiving benefits to which not entitled" href="/60.2-633/">60.2-633</a>, from unemployment benefits otherwise payable to an individual an amount equal to any overpayment made to such individual under an unemployment benefit program of the United States or of any other state, and not previously recovered. The amount so deducted shall be paid to the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> under whose program such overpayment was made and in accordance with the arrangement between the Commission and the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>. <a id="paragraph-248334" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-116/#C1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Whereby the United States agrees to allow the Commission to recover from unemployment benefits otherwise payable to an individual under an unemployment benefit program of the United States any overpayments made by the Commission to such individual under this title and not previously recovered, in accordance with the same procedures that apply under subdivision 1 of this subsection. <a id="paragraph-248335" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-116/#C2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to recoveries made on or after July 1, 1987, and shall apply with respect to overpayments made before, on, or after such date. <a id="paragraph-248336" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-116/#C3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 60-40; 1968, c. 738, &#xA7; 60.1-45; 1986, c. 480; 1987, c. 113; 2022, c. 668.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
