Altaville Drug Store, Inc. v. Employment Development Department

*233Opinion

PANELLI, J.

This case involves Unemployment Insurance Code section 1032, which sets forth circumstances in which benefits awarded to a claimant are not charged to the reserve account of the employer.1 Specifically, we must decide whether section 1032 was intended by the Legislature to operate in connection with section 1256 (eligibility for benefits) so that a later expansion of the word “spouse” in section 1256 mandates use of the same expanded definition in the application of section 1032. We conclude that it does.

I. Facts and Procedural History

On December 29, 1983, Belinda Dillard…