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    <CFRTITLE>20</CFRTITLE>
    <CFRTITLETEXT>Employees' Benefits</CFRTITLETEXT>
    <VOL>1</VOL>
    <DATE>2002-04-01</DATE>
    <ORIGINALDATE>2002-04-01</ORIGINALDATE>
    <COVERONLY>false</COVERONLY>
    <TITLE>Meaning of âavailable for workâ.</TITLE>
    <GRANULENUM>327.5</GRANULENUM>
    <HEADING>Section 327.5</HEADING>
    <ANCESTORS>
      <PARENT HEADING="Title 20" SEQ="3">Employees' Benefits</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="CHAPTER II" SEQ="2">RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="SUBCHAPTER C" SEQ="1">REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="PART 327" SEQ="0">AVAILABLE FOR WORK</PARENT>
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    <SECTNO>§ 327.5</SECTNO>
    <SUBJECT>Meaning of “available for work”.</SUBJECT>
    <P>(a) <E T="03">General definition.</E> A claimant for unemployment benefits is available for work if he is willing and ready to work.</P>
    <P>(b) <E T="03">Willing to work.</E> A claimant is willing to work if he is willing to accept and perform for hire such work as is reasonably appropriate to his circumstances in view of factors such as:</P>
    <P>(1) The current practices recognized by management and labor with respect to such work;</P>
    <P>(2) The degree of risk involved to the claimant's health, safety, and morals;</P>
    <P>(3) His physical fitness and prior training;</P>
    <P>(4) His experience and prior earnings;</P>
    <P>(5) His length of unemployment and prospects for obtaining work; and</P>
    <P>(6) The distance of the work from his residence and from his most recent work.</P>
    <P>(c) <E T="03">Ready to work.</E> A claimant is ready to work if he:</P>
    <P>(1) Is in a position to receive notice of work which he is willing to accept and perform, and</P>
    <P>(2) Is prepared to be present with the customary equipment at the location of such work within the time usually allotted.</P>
    <CITA>[Board Order 53-296, 18 FR 8157, Dec. 12, 1953]</CITA>
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