No waiver or assignment of benefits
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 120 Wash. 2d 394 - Shoreline Community College District No. 7 v. Employment Security Department (1993)
Most recently applied in In re Maine (November 2011)
Effective: September 22, 1982; Latest Legislation: House Bill 940 - 114th General Assembly
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Except as permitted by Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code:
(A) No agreement by an employee to waive his right to benefits is valid, nor shall benefits be assigned, released, or commuted; and
(B) Such benefits are exempt from all claims of creditors and from levy, execution, garnishment, attachment, and all other process or remedy for recovery or collection of a debt, which exemption may not be waived.
Official source: Ohio Laws & Administrative Rules (Legislative Service Commission). Reproduced from public-domain Ohio statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.