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paid into the qualified trust shall be reduced by the amount of the distribution if otherwise required by section 3304(a)(15) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C.s.3304(a)(15).

The amount of benefits payable to an individual who is involuntarily and permanently separated from employment prior to the date at which the individual may retire with full pension rights shall not be reduced pursuant to this section because the individual receives a lump sum payment in lieu of periodic pension, retirement or annuity payments, except that the benefits payable to the individual may be reduced during the week in which the individual receives the lump sum payment.

L.1980,c.13,s.1; amended 1984, c.24, s.15; 1993, c.330; 2007, c.34.

43:21-5.1. Repealed by L.1984, c.24 & 21, eff. October 1, 1984

43:21-5.2. Agreement with United States Secretary of Labor authorized

The Division of Employment Security is authorized to enter into an agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor under Title XV of the Social Security Act-- "Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees" (Public Law 767-83d Congress), whereby the division, as agent of the United States, will in accordance with the provisions of said Title, make payments of compensation to Federal employees as therein defined, and will otherwise co-operate with the Secretary of Labor and with other State agencies in making such payments; provided, however, that all costs and expenses incurred, as well as all moneys required to make payments of such compensation shall be provided by Federal funds and shall not devolve upon the State of New Jersey; and further provided, that subsection (f) of section 43:21-5 of the Revised Statutes shall be inapplicable to any week with respect to which or a part of which a claimant has received or is seeking unemployment benefits under Title XV of the Social Security Act, except that no claimant shall be eligible during any week for benefits in an amount in excess of the amount allowable under R.S. 43:21-1 et seq. plus any additional amount permitted under the agreement with the Secretary of Labor, or shall be eligible for weeks of benefits in a benefit year, based on employment under R.S. 43:21-1 et seq. plus Federal employment, in excess of the number of weeks allowable under R.S. 43:21-1 et seq.

L.1954, c. 259, p. 934, s. 1.

43:21-6. Claims for benefits

(a) Filing. (1) Claims for benefits shall be made in accordance with such regulations as the Director of the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development of the State of New Jersey may approve. Each employer shall post and maintain on his premises printed notices of his subject status, of such design, in such numbers and at such places as the director of the division may determine to be necessary to give notice thereof to persons in the employer's service. Each employer shall give to each individual at the time he becomes unemployed, for any reason, whether the unemployment is permanent or temporary, a printed copy of benefit instructions. The benefit instructions given to the individual shall include, but not be limited to, the following information: (A) the date upon which the individual becomes unemployed, and, in the case that