Claimants are only allowed to “go back” to prior state to collect EUC if they had already established an EUC claim in that state
prior to qualifying for regular benefits in another state.
Because this claimant immediately qualified for the claim in NJ after (exhausting his/her regular claim in VA), s/he was not an exhaustee for EUC purposes and therefore VA could not establish (by law) an EUC claim and was required by to refer the claimant to NJ (as that was the state in which the claimant had regular eligibility).
Because they could not establish the EUC claim, the claimant therefore did not have any right to go back to VA after his/her NJ claim expired as the VA claim would no longer be the most recent applicable benefit year for the purposes of establishing an EUC claim.