Ohio Code § 4141.43

§ 4141.43.

(A) The director of job and family services may disclose information as provided in this

section in accordance with federal law governing such disclosure and sections 4141.162 , 4141.21 , and 4141.211 of the Revised Code . (B) The director may make the state's record relating to the administration of this chapter

available to the railroad retirement board and may furnish the board at the board's

expense such copies thereof as the board deems necessary for its purposes. (C) The director may afford reasonable cooperation with every agency of the United States

charged with the administration of any unemployment compensation law. (D) The director may enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states

or of the United States or Canada whereby individuals performing services in this

and other states for a single employer under circumstances not specifically provided

for in division (B) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code or in similar provisions in the unemployment compensation laws of such other states

shall be deemed to be engaged in employment performed entirely within this state or

within one of such other states or within Canada, and whereby potential rights to

benefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation laws of several states or

under such a law of the United States, or both, or of Canada may constitute the basis

for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate agency under terms that the

director finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests and will not

result in any substantial loss to the unemployment compensation fund. (E) The director may enter into agreements with the appropriate agencies of other states

or of the United States or Canada: (1) Whereby services or wages upon the basis of which an individual may become entitled

to benefits under the unemployment compensation law of another state or of the United

States or Canada shall be deemed to be employment or wages for employment by employers

for the purposes of qualifying claimants for benefits under this chapter, and the

director may estimate the number of weeks of employment represented by the wages reported

to the director for such claimants by such other agency, provided such other state

agency or agency of the United States or Canada has agreed to reimburse the unemployment

compensation fund for such portion of benefits paid under this chapter upon the basis

of such services or wages as the director finds will be fair and reasonable as to

all affected interests; (2) Whereby the director will reimburse other state or federal or Canadian agencies charged

with the administration of unemployment compensation laws with such reasonable portion

of benefits, paid under the law of such other states or of the United States or of

Canada upon the basis of employment or wages for employment by employers, as the director

finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests.  Reimbursements so payable shall be deemed to be benefits for the purpose of section 4141.09 and division (A) of section 4141.30 of the Revised Code .  However, no reimbursement so payable shall be charged against any employer's account

for the purposes of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code if the employer's account, under the same or similar circumstances, with respect

to benefits charged under the provisions of this chapter, other than this section,

would not be charged or, if the claimant at the time the claimant files the combined

wage claim cannot establish benefit rights under this chapter.  This noncharging shall not be applicable to a nonprofit organization that has elected

to make payments in lieu of contributions under section 4141.241 of the Revised Code , except as provided in division (D)(2) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code .  The director may make to other state or federal or Canadian agencies and receive

from such other state or federal or Canadian agencies reimbursements from or to the

unemployment compensation fund, in accordance with arrangements pursuant to this section. (3) Notwithstanding division (B)(2)(f) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code , the director may enter into agreements with other states whereby services performed

for a crew leader, as defined in division (BB) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code , may be covered in the state in which the crew leader either: (a) Has the crew leader's place of business or from which the crew leader's business

is operated or controlled; (b) Resides if the crew leader has no place of business in any state. (F) The director may apply for an advance to the unemployment compensation fund and do

all things necessary or required to obtain such advance and arrange for the repayment

of such advance in accordance with Title XII of the “Social Security Act” as amended 1 . (G) The director may enter into reciprocal agreements or arrangements with the appropriate

agencies of other states in regard to services on vessels engaged in interstate or

foreign commerce whereby such services for a single employer, wherever performed,

shall be deemed performed within this state or within such other states. (H) The director shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of compensation

on the basis of combining an individual's wages and employment, covered under this

chapter, with the individual's wages and employment covered under the unemployment

compensation laws of other states which are approved by the United States secretary

of labor in consultation with the state unemployment compensation agencies as reasonably

calculated to assure the prompt and full payment of compensation in such situations

and which include provisions for: (1) Applying the base period of a single state law to a claim involving the combining

of an individual's wages and employment covered under two or more state unemployment

compensation laws, and (2) Avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment by reason of such combining. (I)(1) The director shall cooperate with the United States department of labor to the fullest

extent consistent with this chapter, and shall take such action, through the adoption

of appropriate rules, regulations, and administrative methods and standards, as may

be necessary to secure to this state and its citizens all advantages available under

the provisions of the “Social Security Act” that relate to unemployment compensation,

the “Federal Unemployment Tax Act,” (1970) 84 Stat. 713, 26 U.S.C.A. 3301 to 3311 , the “Wagner-Peyser Act,” (1933) 48 Stat. 113, 29 U.S.C.A. 49 , the “Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970,” 84 Stat. 596, 26 U.S.C.A. 3306 , and the “Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act,” 29 U.S.C.A. 3101 et seq. (2) Nothing in division (I)(1) of this section requires the director to participate in,

nor precludes the director from ceasing to participate in, any voluntary, optional,

special, or emergency program offered by the federal government, including programs

offered under any of the federal acts listed in division (I)(1) of this section, the

“Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act,” 15 U.S.C. 9023 , or any other federal program enacted to address exceptional unemployment conditions. (J) The director may disclose wage information furnished to or maintained by the director

under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code to a consumer reporting agency as defined

by the “Fair Credit Reporting Act,” 84 Stat. 1128, 15 U.S.C.A. 1681a , as amended, for the purpose of verifying an individual's income under a written

agreement that requires all of the following: (1) A written statement of informed consent from the individual whose information is

to be disclosed; (2) A written statement confirming that the consumer reporting agency and any other entity

to which the information is disclosed or released will safeguard the information from

illegal or unauthorized disclosure; (3) A written statement confirming that the consumer reporting agency will pay to the

department all costs associated with the disclosure. The director shall prescribe a manner and format in which this information may be

provided. For purposes of this division, “ wage information ” means the name, social security number, quarterly wages paid to, and weeks worked

by an employee, and the name, address, and state and federal tax identification number

of an employer reporting wages under section 4141.20 of the Revised Code . (K) The director shall disclose information furnished to or maintained by the director

under this chapter upon request and on a reimbursable basis as required by section

303 of the “Social Security Act,” 42 U.S.C.A. 503 , and section 3304 of the “Internal Revenue Code,” 26 U.S.C.A. 3304 . 1

 42 U.S.C.A. § 1321 et seq.