Bills › 91st General Assembly
Relating to disqualification for unemployment benefits for other compensation received and including applicability provisions
Topics:Jobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2025
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, 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 who receive any kind of extra money from an employer when they lose their job will not be able to collect unemployment benefits for those weeks. If the extra money is more than the weekly unemployment amount, the person's future benefits will be reduced until the extra payment is fully accounted for. This change affects anyone receiving separation payments after the law begins.1
Read the official explanation
Under current law, an individual is disqualified for unemployment benefits for any week in which the individual receives payment of wages in lieu of notice, a separation allowance, severance pay, or dismissal pay. This bill adds payment of any other remuneration in connection with separation from employment to the grounds for such disqualification. The bill provides that if the amount of the payment for wages in lieu of notice, separation allowance, severance pay, dismissal pay, or any other remuneration in connection with separation from employment received in a week exceeds the benefits the individual would otherwise be entitled to receive for the week, the amount of benefits in subsequent weeks the individual would otherwise be entitled to receive shall also be reduced by the amount of the payment. Such reduction shall continue until the total amount of the benefits reduced in this manner equals the total amount of the payment received. The bill applies to such payments received by an individual on or after the effective date of the bill.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 12, 2025. On February 18, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.
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