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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 43:21-61

  • Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter (R. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
  • Division: means the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, and any transaction or exercise of authority by the director of the division thereunder, or under this chapter (R. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
  • Employer: means : (1) Any employing unit which in either the current or the preceding calendar year paid remuneration for employment in the amount of $1,000. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
  • State: includes , in addition to the states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
  • Week: means for benefit years commencing on or after October 1, 1984, the calendar week ending at midnight Saturday, or as the division may by regulation prescribe. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
5. Except as provided in section 8 of this act, each individual who meets the requirements of section 4 of this act, but has not completed the remedial education and vocational training at the end of the period during which he is entitled to receive unemployment benefits pursuant to the “unemployment compensation law” (R.S.43:21-1 et seq.), P.L.1970, c.324 (C. 43:21-24.11 et seq.) and any federally-financed supplemental benefits program shall be entitled to receive a weekly benefit equal to his previous weekly unemployment compensation benefit for each additional week certified by the division as needed to complete the remedial education or vocational training up to a total of 26 additional weeks.

No additional benefits shall be paid pursuant to the provisions of this section for any week during which the individual receives training allowances or stipends pursuant to the provisions of this section for any week during which the individual receives training allowances or stipends pursuant to the provisions of any federal law or any other State law. As used in this section, “training allowances or stipends” means discretionary use, cash-in-hand payments available to the individual to be used as the individual sees fit, but does not mean direct or indirect compensation for training costs, such as the costs of tuition, books and supplies.

No employer‘s account shall be charged for the payment of additional benefits pursuant to the provisions of this section.

L.1992, c.47, s.5.

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