(a) State indicators. Upon receipt of the notice required by
Sec. 615.12(e) which is acceptable to the Department, the Department
shall publish in the Federal Register a notice of the State agency
head's determination that there is an ``on'' or an ``off'' indicator in
the State, as the case may be, the name of the State and the beginning
or ending of the Extended Benefit Period, whichever is appropriate. The
Department shall also notify appropriate news media, the heads of all
other State agencies, and the Regional Administrators of the Employment
and Training Administration of the State agency head's determination of
such State ``on'' or ``off'' indicator and of its effect.
(b) Publicity by State. Whenever a State agency head determines that
there is an ``on'' indicator in the State by reason of which an Extended
Benefit Period will begin in the State, or an ``off'' indicator by
reason of which an Extended Benefit Period in the State will end, the
head of the State agency shall promptly announce the determination
through appropriate news
media in the State and notify the Department in accordance with
Sec. 615.12(e). Such announcement shall include the beginning or ending
date of the Extended Benefit Period, whichever is appropriate. In the
case of an Extended Benefit Period that is about to begin, the
announcement shall describe clearly the unemployed individuals who may
be eligible for Extended Benefits during the period, and in the case of
an Extended Benefit Period that is about to end, the announcement shall
also describe clearly the individuals whose entitlement to Extended
Benefits will be terminated.
(c) Notices to individuals. (1) Whenever there has been a
determination that an Extended Benefit Period will begin in a State, the
State agency shall provide prompt written notice of potential
entitlement to Extended Benefits to each individual who has established
a benefit year in the State that will not end prior to the beginning of
the Extended Benefit Period, and who exhausted all rights under the
State law to regular compensation before the beginning of the Extended
Benefit Period.
(2) The State agency shall provide such notice promptly to each
individual who begins to claim sharable regular benefits or who exhausts
all rights under the State law to regular compensation during an
Extended Benefit Period, including exhaustion by reason of the
expiration of the individual's benefit year.
(3) The notices required by paragraphs (c) (1) and (2) of this
section shall describe those actions required of claimants for sharable
regular compensation and Extended Benefits and those disqualifications
which apply to such benefits which are different from those applicable
to other claimants for regular compensation which is not sharable.
(4) Whenever there has been a determination that an Extended Benefit
Period will end in a State, the State agency shall provide prompt
written notice to each individual who is currently filing claims for
Extended Benefits of the forthcoming end of the Extended Benefit Period
and its effect on the individual's right to Extended Benefits.
