HB364 Alabama 2019 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Unemployment benefits, maximum amount paid to an individual revised contingent on the state's average unemployment rate, maximum weekly benefits revised, terms of losing benefits due to disqualification, Secs. 25-4-72, 25-4-74, 25-4-78 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to an individual in a benefit year is the lesser of 26 times the individual's weekly benefit amount or one-third of the wages paid to the individual for insured work during his or her base period.

This bill would revise the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to an individual in a benefit year contingent on the state's average unemployment rate, but in no event would the maximum amount of benefits exceed the lesser of 20 times the individual's weekly benefit amount or one-fourth of the wages paid during his or her base period.

This bill would revise the maximum weekly unemployment benefit amount to an amount that is an equal division of the current weeks compensated of the average of the wages for insured work paid to the individual during the two quarters of his or her base period in which the total wages were the highest.

This bill would also revise the reductions in unemployment benefit amounts due to disqualification in certain circumstances.

Relating to unemployment benefits, to amend Sections 25-4-72, 25-4-74, and 25-4-78, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to an individual contingent on the state's average unemployment rate; to revise the maximum weekly unemployment benefit amount; and to revise the terms of losing unemployment benefits due to disqualification.

Subjects

Unemployment Compensation