Okla. Stat. tit. 40, § 40-2-612
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Payment of benefits
Official statutory text
PAYMENT OF BENEFITS.
Benefits shall be promptly paid on any claim in accordance with
a determination or redetermination or the decision of a referee, the
Board of Review or a reviewing court upon the issuance of the
determination, redetermination or decision, regardless of the
pendency of an appeal, or petition for judicial review that is
provided by the Employment Security Act of 1980, unless and until
the determination, redetermination, or decision has been modified or
reversed by a subsequent redetermination or decision, in which event
benefits shall be paid or denied for weeks of unemployment
thereafter in accordance with the modifying or reversing
redetermination or decision. No injunction, supersedeas, stay or
other writ or process suspending the payment of the benefits shall
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be issued by any court, but if the determination, redetermination or
decision is finally modified or reversed to deny benefits no
employer's account shall remain charged with benefit wages pursuant
to the erroneous determination, redetermination or decision and
benefits shall not be paid for any weeks of unemployment involved in
the modification or reversal that begin after the final decision.
Benefits shall be promptly paid on any claim in accordance with
a determination or redetermination or the decision of a referee, the
Board of Review or a reviewing court upon the issuance of the
determination, redetermination or decision, regardless of the
pendency of an appeal, or petition for judicial review that is
provided by the Employment Security Act of 1980, unless and until
the determination, redetermination, or decision has been modified or
reversed by a subsequent redetermination or decision, in which event
benefits shall be paid or denied for weeks of unemployment
thereafter in accordance with the modifying or reversing
redetermination or decision. No injunction, supersedeas, stay or
other writ or process suspending the payment of the benefits shall
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 87
be issued by any court, but if the determination, redetermination or
decision is finally modified or reversed to deny benefits no
employer's account shall remain charged with benefit wages pursuant
to the erroneous determination, redetermination or decision and
benefits shall not be paid for any weeks of unemployment involved in
the modification or reversal that begin after the final decision.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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