Title 52, Social Security

An unemployed individual is eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if the bureau finds that: 1. The individual has made a claim for benefits with respect to such week in accordance with such regulations as the bureau may prescribe; 2. The individual has regist…

An individual is disqualified for benefits: 1. a. For the week in which the individual has left the individual's most recent employment voluntarily without good cause attributable to the employer, and thereafter until such time as the individual: (1) Can demonstrate that the indi…

Beginning twenty-four months after the date when contributions first accrued under the North Dakota unemployment compensation law, benefits become payable from the fund. Benefits must be paid through public employment offices in accordance with such regulations as the bureau may …

1. The procedures, provisions, and conditions of this section must determine the "weekly benefit amount" of those individuals who establish a benefit year: a. For the purpose of this section, the bureau shall each year, on or before the first day of June, determine the average an…

Any otherwise eligible individual is entitled during the individual's benefit year to benefits for the number of times the individual's weekly benefit amount appearing in the following table on the line which includes the individual's ratio of total base-period wages to highest q…

Each eligible individual who is unemployed with respect to any week must be paid with respect to such week a benefit in an amount equal to the individual's weekly benefit amount less that part of the wages, if any, payable to the individual with respect to such week which is in e…

1. An individual filing a new claim for unemployment compensation shall, at the time of filing such claim, disclose whether or not the individual owes child support obligations as defined under subsection 7. If any such individual discloses that the individual owes child support …

For the purposes of section 52-06-04 and subsection 30 of section 52-01-01, wages payable to an individual for insured work performed prior to January 1, 1941, must be deemed to be wages paid within the calendar quarter with respect to which such wages were paid.

Claims for benefits under the North Dakota unemployment compensation law must be made in accordance with such regulations as the bureau may prescribe.

A determination upon a claim filed pursuant to section 52-06-08 must be made promptly by an examiner and must include a statement as to whether and in what amount the claimant is entitled to benefits for the weeks with respect to which the determination is made and in the event o…

Whenever any claim for benefits under the North Dakota unemployment compensation law involves the application of the provisions of subsection 4 of section 52-06-02, the examiner handling the claim, if so directed by the bureau, shall transmit such claim promptly to the appeals re…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of the North Dakota unemployment compensation law, the bureau, by regulation, may prescribe that the existence of unemployment, the eligibility for benefits, and the amount of benefits shall be determined for that portion of the week occurring…

Notice of a determination upon a claim must be given promptly to the claimant by delivery thereof or by mailing such notice to the claimant's last-known address. In addition, notice of any determination which involves the application of the provisions of section 52-06-02 together…

The bureau shall, upon determination of an individual's eligibility for benefits chargeable against each base-period employer's account, notify each of the individual's base-period employers, including employers electing to finance benefit payments on a reimbursable basis, of the…

The claimant or any other party entitled to a notice of a determination as provided in the North Dakota unemployment compensation law may file an appeal from such determination with the appeal tribunal within twelve days after the date of mailing of the notice to the person's las…

The bureau shall appoint one or more impartial appeal examiners known as the appeal tribunal, who shall hear and decide appealed claims. Each such tribunal shall consist of a referee selected in accordance with chapter 52-02, or a body composed of three members, one of whom must …

The parties must be notified promptly of an appeal tribunal's decision upon an appeal taken as is provided in section 52-06-13 and must be furnished with a copy of the decision and the findings and conclusions in support thereof. The decision is final unless, within twelve days a…

The job insurance division may reconsider a determination of a claim whenever it finds: 1. That an error in computation or identity has occurred in connection therewith; 2. That wages of the claimant pertinent to such determination but not considered in connection therewith have …

If the amount of benefits is increased upon such redetermination, an appeal from the redetermination, solely with respect to the matters involved in such increase, may be filed in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in this chapter. If the amount of benefits is dec…

If an appeal involving an original determination is pending as of the date a redetermination thereof is issued, such appeal, unless withdrawn, must be treated as an appeal from such redetermination.

The bureau, on its own motion, and within the time specified in section 52-06-15, may initiate a review of the decision of the appeal tribunal or may allow an appeal from such decision upon an application filed within such time by any party entitled to notice of such decision. An…

The bureau and appeal tribunal shall not be bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or by technical rules of procedure, but any hearing or appeal before such tribunals must be conducted in such manner as to ascertain the substantial rights of the parties. The bureau sh…

Any right, fact, or matter in issue directly passed upon or necessarily involved in a determination or redetermination which has become final, or which has become final following a decision or appeal under the North Dakota unemployment compensation law, is conclusive for all the …

The final decisions of the bureau or of an appeal tribunal and the principles of law declared by it in arriving at such decisions, unless expressly or impliedly overruled by a later decision of the bureau or by a court of competent jurisdiction, are binding upon the bureau and an…

In the discharge of the duties imposed by the North Dakota unemployment compensation law, the chairman of an appeal tribunal, or any duly authorized representative or member of the bureau, may administer oaths and affirmations, take depositions, certify to official acts, and issu…

A record must be kept of all testimony and proceedings before the bureau or in connection with any appeal, but the testimony need not be transcribed unless further review is initiated. Witnesses subpoenaed pursuant to this chapter must be allowed fees at the rate specified by law…

In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpoena 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 the person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts …

No person may be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records before the chairman of an appeal tribunal, the bureau or any member thereof, or any duly authorized representative of the bureau, in any cause or p…

A party to proceedings before the bureau may obtain a judicial review of the decision of the bureau by filing a petition for review within thirty days after the date of mailing the bureau's decision to the party at the party's last-known address, or in the absence of mailing, wit…

The bureau is entitled to notice as a party in any proceeding involving a claim for benefits before the bureau or an appeal tribunal. In any proceeding for judicial review pursuant to section 52-06-27, the bureau may be represented by the attorney employed by it for that purpose.

Benefits must be promptly paid in accordance with a determination or redetermination regardless of any appeal or pending appeal. If a determination allowing benefits is affirmed in any amount by an appeals referee or is so affirmed by the bureau or if a decision of an appeals ref…

1. No assignment, pledge, or encumbrance of any right to benefits which are or may become due or payable under the North Dakota unemployment compensation law is valid. Such rights to benefits are exempt from levy, execution, attachment, or any other remedy provided for the collec…

No agreement by any individual to waive, release, or commute the individual's rights to benefits or any other rights under the North Dakota unemployment compensation law is valid. No agreement by any individual in the employ of any person or concern to pay all or any portion of a…

A claimant may not be charged fees by the bureau or by any court or officer thereof in any proceeding under this chapter. Any party in any proceeding before the bureau may be represented by counsel or other duly authorized agent. A claimant's attorney's fees for representation in…

A person who has received any amount of benefits under the North Dakota unemployment compensation law to which the person is not entitled shall be liable to refund to the bureau for the fund the amount so paid or to have such amount deducted from any future benefits payable to th…

Benefits may be deemed to be due and payable under this chapter only to the extent provided in this chapter and to the extent that moneys are available therefor to the credit of the unemployment compensation fund. Neither the state nor the bureau is liable for any amount in exces…

Each employer shall post and maintain in places readily accessible to individuals in the employer's employ printed statements concerning benefit rights, claims for benefits, and such other matters relating to the administration of the North Dakota unemployment compensation law as…

In determining whether or not any work is suitable for an individual and in determining the existence of good cause for voluntarily leaving the individual's work under subsections 1 and 3 of section 52-06-02, there must be considered among other factors, and in addition to those …

No action for slander or libel, either civil or criminal, may be predicated upon information furnished by an employer to the job insurance division in connection with the imposition of any of the disqualifications set forth in section 52-06-02.

Any finding of fact or law, judgment, conclusion, or decision made by a claims examiner, appeals referee, the bureau, or any person with the authority to make findings of fact or law in any action or proceeding before the bureau is not conclusive or binding on, nor may it be used…

Any person who willfully violates any provision of this title, or any order, rule, or regulation thereunder, and for which a penalty is neither prescribed in this title nor provided by any other applicable statute, is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.