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urn: urn:us-la:rs:23:1598
citation: "R.S. 23:1598"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 23 › Chapter 11 › Part V"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1968, number: 41, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 1985, number: 467, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
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# Wages earned but unpaid as basis for benefits payable

For the purposes of this Part, the administrator shall, in determining benefit rights of a claimant, treat wages earned as wages paid:

(1) In those cases where the employer has failed to make payment thereof in accordance with his contract, regular practice, or custom; or

(2) In those cases where the employee would have been eligible to receive benefits had wages been paid when earned.