5 U.S.C. § 8502 — Compensation under State agreement

(a) The Secretary of Labor, acting for the United States, may make an agreement with a state, or with the state agency that runs its unemployment compensation law, under which that state agency will (1) pay compensation under this subchapter to federal employees, acting as the United States' agent; and (2) otherwise work with the Secretary and other state agencies to pay compensation under this subchapter. (b) The agreement must say that the state will pay a federal employee compensation in the same amount, on the same terms, and under the same conditions as the state's own unemployment law would provide — treating the employee's Federal service and Federal wages, once assigned to that state under section 8504, as if they had counted as regular state employment and wages. [(c) Repealed.] (d) A state agency's decision about whether someone is entitled to compensation under an agreement can be reviewed in the same way, and to the same extent, as decisions under the state's own unemployment compensation law — and only in that way and to that extent. (e) Every agreement must spell out the terms under which it can be changed or ended.