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[CITE: 42USC5177]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 68--DISASTER RELIEF
 
            SUBCHAPTER IV--MAJOR DISASTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
 
Sec. 5177. Unemployment assistance


(a) Benefit assistance

    The President is authorized to provide to any individual unemployed 
as a result of a major disaster such benefit assistance as he deems 
appropriate while such individual is unemployed for the weeks of such 
unemployment with respect to which the individual is not entitled to any 
other unemployment compensation (as that term is defined in section 
85(b) of title 26) or waiting period credit. Such assistance as the 
President shall provide shall be available to an individual as long as 
the individual's unemployment caused by the major disaster continues or 
until the individual is reemployed in a suitable position, but no longer 
than 26 weeks after the major disaster is declared. Such assistance for 
a week of unemployment shall not exceed the maximum weekly amount 
authorized under the unemployment compensation law of the State in which 
the disaster occurred. The President is directed to provide such 
assistance through agreements with States which, in his judgment, have 
an adequate system for administering such assistance through existing 
State agencies.

(b) Reemployment assistance

                        (1) State assistance

        A State shall provide, without reimbursement from any funds 
    provided under this chapter, reemployment assistance services under 
    any other law administered by the State to individuals receiving 
    benefits under this section.

                       (2) Federal assistance

        The President may provide reemployment assistance services under 
    other laws to individuals who are unemployed as a result of a major 
    disaster and who reside in a State which does not provide such 
    services.

(Pub. L. 93-288, title IV, Sec. 410, formerly Sec. 407, May 22, 1974, 88 
Stat. 156; renumbered Sec. 410 and amended Pub. L. 100-707, title I, 
Sec. 106(e), (f), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4703, 4704.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 410 of Pub. L. 93-288 was renumbered section 413 by 
Pub. L. 100-707 and is classified to section 5180 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1988--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-707, Sec. 106(f)(1)-(3), inserted 
``for the weeks of such unemployment with respect to which the 
individual is not entitled to any other unemployment compensation (as 
that term is defined in section 85(b) of title 26) or waiting period 
credit'' for ``is unemployed'' before period at end of first sentence, 
substituted ``26 weeks'' for ``one year'' in second sentence, and 
substituted ``occurred'' for ``occurred, and the amount of assistance 
under this section to any such individual for a week of unemployment 
shall be reduced by any amount of unemployment compensation or of 
private income protection insurance compensation available to such 
individual for such week of unemployment'' in third sentence.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100-707, Sec. 106(f)(4), inserted heading and 
amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: ``The 
President is further authorized for the purposes of this chapter to 
provide reemployment assistance services under other laws to individuals 
who are unemployed as a result of a major disaster.''
