U.S Code last checked for updates: May 02, 2024
§ 1102.
Transfers between Federal unemployment account and employment security administration account
(a)
Determination of excess; amount transferred
Whenever the Secretary of the Treasury determines pursuant to section 1101(f) of this title that there is an excess in the employment security administration account as of the close of any fiscal year and the entire amount of such excess is not retained in the employment security administration account or transferred to the extended unemployment compensation account as provided in section 1101(f)(3) of this title, there shall be transferred (as of the beginning of the succeeding fiscal year) to the Federal unemployment account the balance of such excess or so much thereof as is required to increase the amount in the Federal unemployment account to whichever of the following is the greater:
(1)
$550 million, or
(2)
the amount (determined by the Secretary of Labor and certified by him to the Secretary of the Treasury) equal to 0.5 percent of the total wages subject (determined without any limitation on amount) to contributions under all State unemployment compensation laws for the calendar year ending during the fiscal year for which the excess is determined.
(b)
Unemployment account excesses
(c)
Report to Congress
(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IX, § 902, as added Aug. 5, 1954, ch. 657, § 2, 68 Stat. 669; amended Pub. L. 86–778, title V, § 521, Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 974; Pub. L. 91–373, title III, § 304(a), (b), Aug. 10, 1970, 84 Stat. 715, 716; Pub. L. 100–203, title IX, § 9154(b)(1), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–326; Pub. L. 102–318, title V, § 531(b), July 3, 1992, 106 Stat. 316; Pub. L. 105–33, title V, § 5402(a), Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 603.)
cite as: 42 USC 1102