# Title 27 — Job Service North Dakota

## Article 27-03 — Unemployment Compensation Benefits

## Chapter 27-03-01 — Definition of Benefit Terms

### § 27-03-01-01. Definitions.

Benefit terms used in regulations, interpretations, rules, forms, instructions, and other official
pronouncements issued by the bureau, shall have the following meanings:
1. "Additional claim" is a notification filed at the beginning of a second or subsequent series of
claims within a benefit year when reemployment and subsequent separation have occurred
since the last claim was filed.
2. "Claimant" is an individual who has requested determination of insured status in connection
with a claim for benefits.
3. "Continued claim" is an application for waiting period credit or benefit payment and certifies to
the completion of a week for which waiting period credit or benefits are claimed.
4. "Full-time work" means the number of hours or days per week currently established by
schedule, custom, or otherwise, as constituting a week of full-time work for the kind of service
an individual performs for an employing unit.
5. "Insured status" is a claimant's status when it has been determined by the division that the
claimant has earned qualifying wages in accordance with North Dakota Century Code section
52-06-04.
6. "New claim" is an application for determination of insured status, benefit amount, and duration.
7. "Part totally unemployed worker" is an individual who during any week is not employed full
time or during which week the individual's earnings from casual employment or odd jobs are
less than the individual's weekly benefit amount.
8. "Partially unemployed worker" is one who during a particular week:
a. Earned less than his weekly benefit amount;
b. Was employed by a regular employing unit;
c. Worked less than the normal customary full-time hours for such regular employing unit
because of a lack of full-time work; and
d. Has a reasonable expectancy of obtaining full-time work from such employing unit.

9. "Reopened claim" is a notification following a break in the claim series due to illness,
disqualification, unavailability, or failure to report for any reason other than reemployment.
10. "Totally unemployed worker" is an individual who with respect to any week performs no
services and with respect to which no wages are payable to the individual for services
performed during such week.
11. "Valid claim" means a claim filed by an individual who has registered for work and who has
earned wage credits during the individual's base period sufficient to entitle the individual to
benefits under North Dakota Century Code section 52-06-04.
12. "Week" means the calendar week of seven consecutive calendar days, beginning at 12:01
a.m. Sunday and ending twelve midnight the following Saturday, except that for the purposes
of payment of benefits to partially unemployed workers, whose wages are paid on a weekly
basis, the term week means the pay period week of such worker.
General Authority: NDCC 52-02-02
Law Implemented: NDCC 52-01-01(21), 52-01-01(23), 52-06-01, 52-06-04, 52-06-06
