(a) The applicable State. The applicable State for an individual
shall be the State to which the individual's Federal military service
and Federal military wages are assigned or transferred under this
section. The applicable State law for the individual shall be the State
law of such State.
(b) Assignment of service and wages. (1) When an individual files a
first claim, all of the individual's Federal military service and
Federal military wages shall be deemed to be assigned to the State in
which such claim is filed, which shall be the ``Paying State'' in the
case of a combined-wage claim. (Sec. 616.6(e) of this chapter.)
(2) Federal military service and Federal military wages assigned to
a State in error shall be reassigned for use by the proper State agency.
An appropriate record of the reassignment shall be made by the State
agency which makes the reassignment.
(c) Assignment deemed complete. All of an individual's Federal
military service and Federal military wages shall be deemed to have been
assigned to a State upon the filing of a first claim. Federal military
service and Federal military wages shall be assigned to a State only in
accordance with paragraph (b) of this section.
(d) Use of assigned service and wages. All assigned Federal military
service and Federal military wages shall be used only by the State to
which assigned in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section, except
that any Federal military service and Federal military wages which are
not within the base period of the State to which they were assigned
shall be subject to transfer in accordance with part 616 of this chapter
for the purposes of any subsequent Combined-Wage Claim filed by the
individual.
