<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id03ea339c-dee3-11e4-8fcf-dcfe4fe06323" identifier="/us/usc/t45/s355a"><num value="355a">§ 355a.</num><heading> Acceptance of claims for benefits</heading><content>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">Whenever there is duly tendered to the Board, by any person, any claim for unemployment compensation pursuant to the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act [<ref href="/us/usc/t45/s351">45 U.S.C. 351</ref> et seq.], such claim shall be accepted by the Board without delay and appropriate administrative action for the allowance or disallowance of such claim shall be taken by the Board at the earliest practicable time.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="id03ea339d-dee3-11e4-8fcf-dcfe4fe06323">(<ref href="/us/act/1956-06-29/ch477">June 29, 1956, ch. 477</ref>, title V, § 501, <ref href="/us/stat/70/437">70 Stat. 437</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<heading class="centered smallCaps">References in Text</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">The Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, referred to in text, is <ref href="/us/act/1938-06-25/ch680">act June 25, 1938, ch. 680</ref>, <ref href="/us/stat/52/1094">52 Stat. 1094</ref>, as amended, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see <ref href="/us/usc/t45/s367">section 367 of this title</ref> and Tables.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I76" topic="codification" id="id03ea33a0-dee3-11e4-8fcf-dcfe4fe06323"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Codification</heading>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Section was enacted as part of act <date date="1956-06-29">June 29, 1956</date>, popularly known as the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, Appropriation Act, 1957, and not as a part of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act which comprises this chapter.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="priorProvisions" id="id03ea33a1-dee3-11e4-8fcf-dcfe4fe06323"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Prior Provisions</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation act: <ref href="/us/act/1955-08-01/ch437">Aug. 1, 1955, ch. 437</ref>, title V, § 501, <ref href="/us/stat/69/411">69 Stat. 411</ref>.</p>
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