Chapter 5.5. Between Terms Unemployment Compensation For Nonprofessional Employees Of State Special Schools of California Unemployment Insurance Code >> Division 1. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 5.5.

Nonprofessional employees of the Fremont and Riverside campuses of the California School for the Deaf, the Fremont campus of the California School for the Blind, and the diagnostic schools for individuals with neurological disabilities located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Fresno, shall be eligible for benefits provided by this chapter, on the same terms and conditions as are specified by this part, Part 3 (commencing with Section 3501), and Part 4 (commencing with Section 4001), for all other individuals, except where inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. Except where inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, the provisions of this division and authorized regulations shall apply to any matter arising pursuant to this chapter.

Notwithstanding Section 1253.3, between terms unemployment compensation benefits are payable by the Controller, from funds appropriated for support of the State Department of Education and allocated to the state special schools, upon authorization by the Employment Development Department to individuals who are eligible to receive these benefits under this chapter. These benefits shall only be paid for weeks of unemployment occurring between school terms and during an established and customary vacation period or holiday recess when other benefits are denied solely by reason of Section 1253.3.

(a) There shall be transferred to the Employment Development Department from funds appropriated for support of the State Department of Education and allocated to the state special schools, at the times and in the manner provided in subdivision (b), an amount equal to the additional cost to the Employment Development Department for added administrative work arising out of this chapter.
  (b) The director shall determine the sums he or she estimates the department will be entitled to receive from the State Department of Education under this section for each fiscal year, reduced or increased by any sum by which he or she finds that his or her estimates for any prior fiscal year were greater or less than the amounts which were actually required. The sum of the amounts transferred or expended pursuant to Section 1452, subdivision (a), and this subdivision in any one fiscal year shall not exceed the amount appropriated in the then current fiscal year to the State Department of Education for the purposes of this chapter.
  (c) The director may require from the State Department of Education such employment, wage, financial, statistical, or other information and reports, properly verified, as may be deemed necessary by the director to carry out his or her duties under this division, which shall be filed with the director at the time and in the manner prescribed by him or her.
  (d) The director may tabulate and publish information obtained pursuant to this chapter in statistical form and may divulge the name of the employing unit.
  (e) The State Department of Education shall provide each employee subject to this chapter, at the end of each school term, with written information advising the employee of benefit rights pursuant to this chapter.

An individual who receives any unemployment compensation benefits otherwise payable irrespective of this chapter, including retroactive unemployment compensation benefits paid pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 1253.3, who has received benefits under this chapter for the same period, shall be liable for repayment to the state of the amount of benefits paid under this chapter for that period.