Sec.31-230-1. Definitions

As used in sections 31-230-1 to 31-230-4, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:

(1) "Administrator" means the Labor Commissioner of the State of Connecticut, whose mailing address is 200 Folly Brook Boulevard, Wethersfield, Connecticut 06109, or his designated representative.

(2) "Alternate base period" means the four most recently completed calendar quarters prior to the individual's benefit year, provided such quarters were not previously used to establish a prior valid benefit year, except that for any such individual who is eligible to receive or is receiving workers' compensation or who is properly absent from work under the terms of an employer's sick leave or disability leave policy, the base period shall be the four most recently worked calendar quarters prior to such benefit year, provided such quarters were not previously used to establish a prior valid benefit year and, provided further, the last most recently worked calendar quarter is not more than twelve calendar quarters prior to the date such individual makes the initiating claim.

(3) "Benefits" means unemployment compensation payable to an individual with respect to his unemployment under Chapter 567 of the Connecticut General Statutes.

(4) "Benefit year" means the period commencing with the beginning of the week with respect to which an individual has filed a valid initiating claim and continuing through the Saturday of the fifty-first week following the week in which it commenced, provided no benefit year shall end until after the end of the third complete calendar quarter, plus the remainder of any uncompleted calendar week which began in such quarter, following the calendar quarter in which it commenced.

(5) "Regular base period" means the first four of the five most recently completed calendar quarters prior to an individual's benefit year, provided such quarters were not previously used to establish a prior valid benefit year, except that for any individual who is eligible to receive or is receiving or had received workers' compensation, or who is or had been properly absent from work under the terms of his employer's sick leave or disability leave policy, the base period shall be the first four of the five most recently worked quarters prior to such benefit year, provided such quarters were not previously used to establish a prior valid benefit year and, provided further, the last most recently worked calendar quarter is not more than twelve calendar quarters prior to the date such individual makes his initiating claim.

(Adopted effective September 30, 2003)