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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 43:21-7.9

  • Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter (R. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
  • contributions: shall include the contributions of workers pursuant to this section. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-7
  • 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
  • Payments in lieu of contributions: means the money payments to the State Unemployment Compensation Fund by employers electing or required to make payments in lieu of contributions, as provided in section 3 or section 4 of P. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • 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
1. a. The costs of any unemployment compensation benefits paid to employees of an employer during the public health emergency and state of emergency declared by the Governor on March 9, 2020, and any subsequent extensions of that public health emergency and state of emergency, shall not be considered when calculating that employer’s reserve ratio for the purposes of determining the rate of the employer’s contributions to the State unemployment compensation fund pursuant to R.S.43:21-7.

b. Any employer that is a nonprofit organization which elects to make payments in lieu of contributions pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1971, c.346 (C. 43:21-7.2) or is a governmental entity or instrumentality which elects to make payments in lieu of contributions pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1971, c.346 (C. 43:21-7.3), shall not be liable for payments in lieu of contributions with respect to the payments of unemployment compensation benefits made pursuant to either of those two sections during the public health emergency and state of emergency declared by the Governor on March 9, 2020, and any subsequent extensions of that public health emergency and state of emergency, except that the employer shall be required to make payments in lieu of contributions from any available funds held in trust for that purpose from contributions made by its employees. Any portion of the payments of unemployment benefits which are not paid from the employee contributions held in trust or from funds provided by the federal government pursuant to the federal CARES Act, public law 116-136, pursuant to section 9012 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, or pursuant to any other applicable federal law, shall not result in a liability for the employer but shall be regarded as State liability relief to the employer and shall be paid from the unemployment compensation fund. Any reimbursing employer who, prior to the effective date of this act, made payments in lieu of contributions during the public health emergency shall be entitled to a reimbursement from the unemployment compensation fund of all of those payments in lieu of contributions made during this period, except that the employer shall not be reimbursed for payments made in lieu of contributions from funds held in trust for that purpose from contributions made by its employees.

2020, c.150, s.1; amended 2021, c.143.

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