---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 9026"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "9026"
heading: "Temporary financing of short-time compensation payments in States with programs in law"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/9026"
units:
  - "Chapter 116 — Coronavirus Economic Stabilization (cares Act)"
  - "Subchapter II — Unemployment Insurance Provisions"
---

# §9026. Temporary financing of short-time compensation payments in States with programs in law

- (a) **Payments to States—**
  - (1) **In general—** Subject to [paragraph (3)](#a-3), there shall be paid to a [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) an amount equal to 100 percent of the amount of short-time compensation paid under a short-time compensation program (as defined in [section 3306(v) of title 26](/usc/26/3306.md?p=v)) under the provisions of the [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) law.
  - (2) **Terms of payments—** Payments made to a [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall be payable by way of reimbursement in such amounts as the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) estimates the [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) will be entitled to receive under this section for each calendar month, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any amount by which the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) finds that the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9)’s estimates for any prior calendar month were greater or less than the amounts which should have been paid to the [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10). Such estimates may be made on the basis of such statistical, sampling, or other method as may be agreed upon by the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) and the [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) agency of the [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) involved.
  - (3) **Limitations on payments—**
    - (A) **General payment limitations—** No payments shall be made to a [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) under this section for short-time compensation paid to an individual by the [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) during a benefit year in excess of 26 times the amount of regular compensation (including dependents’ allowances) under the [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) law payable to such individual for a week of total unemployment.
    - (B) **Employer limitations—** No payments shall be made to a [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) under this section for benefits paid to an individual by the [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) under a short-time compensation program if such individual is employed by the participating [employer](/usc/15/9131.md?p=4) on a seasonal, temporary, or intermittent basis.
- (b) **Applicability—** Payments to a [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be available for weeks of unemployment—
  - (1) beginning on or after March 27, 2020; and
  - (2) ending on or before September 6, 2021.
- (c) **New programs—** Subject to [subsection (b)(2)](#b-2), if at any point after March 27, 2020, the [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) enacts a [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) law providing for the payment of short-time compensation under a short-time compensation program that meets the definition of such a program under [section 3306(v) of title 26](/usc/26/3306.md?p=v), the [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) shall be eligible for payments under this section after the effective date of such enactment.
- (d) **Funding and certifications—**
  - (1) **Funding—** There are appropriated, out of moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for purposes of carrying out this section.
  - (2) **Certifications—** The [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) shall from time to time certify to the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) of the Treasury for payment to each [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) the sums payable to such [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) under this section.
- (e) **Definitions—** In this section:
  - (1) **Secretary—** The term “[Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9)” means the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) of Labor.
  - (2) **State; State agency; State law—** The terms “[State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10)”, “[State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) agency”, and “[State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) law” have the meanings given those terms in [section 205](/usc/15/205.md) of the Federal-[State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 ([26 U.S.C. 3304](/usc/26/3304.md) note).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–136, div. A, title II, § 2108, Mar. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 328; Pub. L. 116–260, div. N, title II, § 207, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 1956; Pub. L. 117–2, title IX, § 9017, Mar. 11, 2021, 135 Stat. 120.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 205 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, referred to in subsec. (e)(2), is section 205 of Pub. L. 91–373, which is set out in a note under section 3304 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.

### Codification

Section is comprised of section 2108 of Pub. L. 116–136. Subsec. (f) of section 2108 of Pub. L. 116–136 amended section 3306 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 117–2 substituted “September 6, 2021” for “March 14, 2021”.

2020—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “March 14, 2021” for “December 31, 2020”.