W. Va. Code § 21A-5-20: Qualifying wages for regular benefits of newly covered workers during transition period on the basis of previously uncovered services.

Wages for insured work includes wages paid for previously uncovered service. For the purposes of this section, the term "previously uncovered services" means services:

(1) Which were not employment as defined in section sixteen, article one-a of this chapter, or by election pursuant to section three, article five of this chapter, at any time during the one-year period ending December 31, 1975; and

(2) Which (A) Are agricultural labor, or domestic services as defined in subdivisions (12) and (13), section sixteen, article one-a of this chapter or (B) are services performed by an employee of this state or a political subdivision thereof, or a nonprofit educational institution as provided in paragraphs (B) and (C), subdivision (9), section sixteen, article one-a of this chapter; except to the extent that assistance under Title II of the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974 was paid on the basis of such services.