Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to unemployment benefit maximum duration amounts and establishing a diminished salary offset
Topics:Jobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 2, 2022
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary People receiving unemployment benefits could get extra money if they start a new job that pays less than their weekly benefit amount. This new rule allows them to receive a payment equal to the difference between their new salary and their unemployment check. Once their total earnings from both the job and the benefits reach their yearly limit, their unemployment payments will end.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to unemployment benefit maximum durations and establishes a diminished salary offset. Under current law, the maximum total amount of unemployment benefits payable to an eligible individual is the lesser of the wage credits accrued in an individual’s account during a base period, times the individual’s weekly benefit amount, or times the individual’s weekly benefit amount if the state “off” indicator is in effect and the individual is laid off due to the individual’s employer going out of business at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the individual was last employed. The bill changes the maximum to the lesser of wage credits accrued in an individual’s account during a base period, times the individual’s weekly benefit amount, or times the individual’s weekly benefit amount if the state “off” indicator is in effect and the individual is laid off due to the individual’s employer going out of business at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the individual was last employed. The bill establishes a diminished salary offset whereby an individual who accepts employment with a gross weekly salary less than the individual’s weekly unemployment benefit amount may receive an amount equal to the difference between the individual’s gross weekly salary and the individual’s weekly benefit amount if the individual accepts such employment prior to exhausting the individual’s benefits for the individual’s benefit year. The individual’s benefits shall be exhausted when the individual’s gross weekly salary paid plus benefits received are equal to or greater than the maximum total amount of benefits payable to the individual during the benefit year.