The criteria in the schedule below shall apply in determining
whether, in the administration of a State law, there has been
substantial compliance with the provision required by section 303(a)(1)
in the issuance of benefit payments to eligible claimants for the first
compensable weeks of unemployment in their benefit years:
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Percentage of first payments
issued--days following end of
first compensable week
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14 days, 21 days,
waiting nonwaiting 35 days,
week week all
States States \1\ States
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Intrastate Claims
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Performance to be achieved for the 12-
mo. period ending:
Mar. 31, 1978......................... 80 80 ........
Mar. 31, 1979......................... \2\ 83 \2\ 83 \2\ 90
Mar. 31, 1980, and thereafter......... 87 87 93
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Interstate Claims
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Performance to be achieved for the 12-
mo. period ending:
Mar. 31, 1978......................... 60 60 ........
Mar. 31, 1979......................... \2\ 65 \2\ 65 \2\ 75
Mar. 31, 1980, and thereafter......... 70 70 78
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\1\ A nonwaiting week State is any State whose law does not require that
a non-compensable period of unemployment be served before the payment
of benefits commences.
\2\ Beginning with the month following the effective date of this
revised regulation.
A State will be deemed to comply substantially, as set out in
Secs. 640.2(b) and 640.3(b), if its average performance, for the period
of review, meets or exceeds the applicable criteria set forth above.
