---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6730"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6730"
heading: "Payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6730"
units:
  - "Chapter 80 — Public Works Employment"
  - "Subchapter II — Antirecession Provisions"
---

# §6730. Payments

- (a) **Time and amount—** From the amount allocated for [State](/usc/42/6701.md?p=2) and [local governments](/usc/42/6701.md?p=3) under [section 6723 of this title](/usc/42/6723.md), the [Secretary](/usc/42/6701.md?p=1) shall pay not later than five days after the beginning of each quarter to each [State](/usc/42/6701.md?p=2) and to each [local government](/usc/42/6701.md?p=3) which has filed a statement of assurances under [section 6725 of this title](/usc/42/6725.md), an amount equal to the amount allocated to such [State](/usc/42/6701.md?p=2) or [local government](/usc/42/6701.md?p=3) under [section 6723 of this title](/usc/42/6723.md).
- (b) **Adjustments—** Payments under this subchapter may be made with necessary adjustments on account of overpayments or underpayments.
- (c) **Termination—** No amount shall be paid to any [State](/usc/42/6701.md?p=2) or [local government](/usc/42/6701.md?p=3) under the provisions of this section for any calendar quarter if—
  - (1) the average rate of unemployment within the jurisdiction of such [State](/usc/42/6701.md?p=2) or [local government](/usc/42/6701.md?p=3) during the most recent calendar quarter which ended three months before the beginning of such calendar quarter was less than 4.5 percent, or
  - (2) the rate of unemployment within the jurisdiction of such government for the last month of the most recent calendar quarter which ended three months before the beginning of such calendar quarter did not exceed 4.5 percent.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–369, title II, § 210, July 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 1009; Pub. L. 94–447, title II, § 201 (5), Oct. 1, 1976, 90 Stat. 1498.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1976—Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 94–447 substituted “4.5 percent, or” for “4.5 percent, and”.