Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1976

Summary

Unemployment Compensation Amendments - Title I: Extension of Coverage Provisions - Extends unemployment insurance coverage to specified agricultural workers, domestic service workers, and workers performing previously excluded service for nonprofit organizations or for State and local governments. Provides that Federal unemployment compensation law shall apply in the Virgin Islands. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to reimburse States providing payment of compensation for any week of employment beginning on or after January 1, 1977, for previously uncovered services. Sets forth rules governing the orderly transition to unemployment coverage of previously non-covered nonprofit organizations. Title II: Financing Provisions - Increases, under the Internal Revenue Code, the Federal unemployment tax wage base from $4,200, to $8,000. Increases the rate of such tax for employers. States that advances to State unemployment funds shall be made for 3-month periods, rather than monthly. Provides that States are entitled to be paid by the Federal Government for unemployment benefits paid to an individual on the basis of a public service job funded with assistance provided under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Title III: Benefit Provisions - Revises the percentages of State and national unemployment designed which trigger coverage provisions of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act. Stipulates that no person may be denied compensation under any State unemployment compensation law solely on the basis of pregnancy or termination of pregnancy. Title IV: National Commission on Unemployment Compensation - Establishes a National Commission on Unemployment Compensation to study and evaluate the present unemployment compensation programs in order to assess the long-range needs of the programs, to develop alternatives, and to recommend changes in the programs. States that the study shall include, but not be limited to, an examination of the adequacy of the changes made by this Act and an examination of the appropriate role of unemployment compensation in income maintenance and its reletionship to other social insurance programs. Directs other Federal agencies to cooperate fully with the Commission in carrying out its functions. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to establish the Commission and fund its activities.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 21 October 1976

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 1 October 1976

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 20 October 1975

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