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(h) Oaths and witnesses. In the discharge of the duties imposed by this chapter, the controller, the appeal tribunal and any duly authorized representative or member of the division, the director or any deputy director thereof or member of the board of review shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations, take depositions, certify to official acts, and issue subpenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, correspondence, memoranda and other records deemed necessary as evidence in connection with a disputed claim or the administration of this chapter. Witnesses subpenaed pursuant to this section shall in the discretion of the department be allowed fees at a rate to be fixed by it. Such fees shall be deemed a part of the expense of administering this chapter.

(i) Subpenas. In case of contumacy by or refusal to obey a subpena issued to any person, any court of this State within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which said person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts business, upon application by the department or its duly authorized representative, or the board of review, shall have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requiring such person to appear before the board of review or a member thereof, the department or its duly authorized representative, there to produce evidence if so ordered or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said court as a contempt thereof. Any person who shall without just cause fail or refuse to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry or to produce books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records, if it is in his power so to do, in obedience to a subpena of the division or of the board of review shall be punished by a fine of not more than $200.00 or by imprisonment for not longer than 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and each day such violation continues shall be deemed to be a separate offense.

(j) Protection against self-incrimination. No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda and other records before the department or the board of review or in obedience to the subpena of a member of the department or the board of review or a member thereof, or any duly authorized representative thereof in any cause or proceeding before the department, the board of review or a member thereof, on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no individual shall be prosecuted or subject to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, except that such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.

(k) State-Federal cooperation. In the administration of this chapter the department shall cooperate to the fullest extent, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, with the United States Department of Labor to secure to this State and its citizens all advantages available under the provisions of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. s. 301 et seq.), as amended, the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (26 U.S.C. s. 3301 et seq.), as amended, and the Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. s. 49 et seq.), as amended; shall make such reports, in such form and containing such