---
kind: "unit"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Employees' Benefits"
key: "chV/part640"
level: "part"
label: "Part 640"
heading: "Standard for Benefit Payment Promptness—unemployment Compensation"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/chV-part640"
sections_count: 9
---

# Part 640 — Standard for Benefit Payment Promptness—unemployment Compensation

Title 20 C.F.R. — Employees' Benefits › Chapter V — Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor

## Sections

- [§640.1. Purpose and scope.](/cfr/20/640.1.md)
- [§640.2. Federal law requirements.](/cfr/20/640.2.md)
- [§640.3. Interpretation of Federal law requirements.](/cfr/20/640.3.md)
- [§640.4. Standard for conformity.](/cfr/20/640.4.md)
- [§640.5. Criteria for compliance.](/cfr/20/640.5.md)
- [§640.6. Review of State compliance.](/cfr/20/640.6.md)
- [§640.7. Benefit payment performance plans.](/cfr/20/640.7.md)
- [§640.8. Enforcement of the standard.](/cfr/20/640.8.md)
- [§640.9. Information, reports and studies.](/cfr/20/640.9.md)