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Exemption: Unemployment compensation

Citation: Stat. - Wyo. Stat. § 27-3-319

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Wyo. Stat. § 27-3-319 :
CHAPTER 3. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.

ARTICLE 3. BENEFITS.

� 27-3-319 Waiver agreements void; exception; assignments void; exemption from levy.

(a) Except as provided by W.S. 27-3-305, 27-3-320 and 27-3-321, any agreement to waive, release or commute benefit rights or any other rights under this act is void and any agreement by any employed individual to pay any portion of an employer's contribution required by this act is void.

(b) Except as provided by W.S. 27-3-305, 27-3-320 and 27-3-321, the assignment, transfer, pledge or encumbrance of benefit rights under this act is void.

(c) Benefit rights are exempt from levy, execution, attachment or other debt collection remedy. Benefits received by an individual under this act and not combined with other funds of the recipient are exempt from debt collection remedies except those incurred for necessities furnished to the individual, his spouse or dependents during his unemployment. A waiver of exemptions provided by this subsection is void.
Last Amended: 1997
1997
(Laws 1937, ch. 113, � 15; C.S. 1945, � 54-115; W.S. 1957, � 27-36; W.S. 1977, � 27-3-116; Laws 1983, ch. 114, � 1; 1996, ch. 4, � 2; 1997, ch. 91, � 2.)


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