{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-21a-5-20","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 21A-5-20","heading":"Qualifying wages for regular benefits of newly covered workers during transition period on the basis of previously uncovered services.","body":"Wages for insured work includes wages paid for previously uncovered service. For the purposes of this section, the term \"previously uncovered services\" means services:\n(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\n(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.","path":["CHAPTER 21A. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.","ARTICLE 5. EMPLOYER COVERAGE AND RESPONSIBILITY."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/21A-5-20/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:25:52Z","sha256":"5c69b442d0fa8b95906f52e30dc0ea20af014c53bfa013e0e08f454a80f0078b","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-21a-5-19","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-21a-6-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}