(1) The total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible individual with respect to his or her applicable benefit year shall be the least of the following amounts:

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Terms Used In Washington Code 50.22.050

  • Extended benefit period: means a period which:
Washington Code 50.22.010
  • Extended benefits: means benefits payable for weeks of unemployment beginning in an extended benefit period to an individual under this title or under any state law (including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen or ex-servicewomen pursuant to 5 U. See Washington Code 50.22.010
  • High unemployment period: means any period of unemployment beginning after March 6, 1993, during which an extended benefit period would be in effect if:
  • Washington Code 50.22.010
  • Regular benefits: means benefits payable to an individual under this title or under any state law (including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen or ex-servicewomen pursuant to 5 U. See Washington Code 50.22.010
  • (a) Fifty percent of the total amount of regular benefits which were payable to him or her under this title in his or her applicable benefit year;
    (b) Thirteen times his or her weekly benefit amount which was payable to him or her under this title for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year; or
    (c) Thirty-nine times his or her weekly benefit amount which was payable to him or her under this title for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year, reduced by the total amount of regular benefits which were paid (or deemed paid) to him or her under this title with respect to the benefit year.
    (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the benefit year of any eligible individual ends within an extended benefit period, the extended benefits which the individual would otherwise be entitled to receive with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning after the end of the benefit year and within the extended benefit period shall be reduced (but not below zero) by the product of the number of weeks for which the individual received any amount as a trade readjustment allowance within that benefit year, multiplied by the individual’s weekly extended benefit amount.
    (3) Effective for weeks beginning in a high unemployment period as defined in RCW 50.22.010(3) the total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible individual with respect to his or her applicable benefit year shall be the least of the following amounts:
    (a) Eighty percent of the total amount of regular benefits that were payable to him or her under this title in his or her applicable benefit year;
    (b) Twenty times his or her weekly benefit amount that was payable to him or her under this title for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year; or
    (c) Forty-six times his or her weekly benefit amount that was payable to him or her under this title for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year, reduced by the total amount of regular benefits which were paid, or deemed paid, to him or her under this title with respect to the benefit year.

    NOTES:

    Effective dates, applicabilityConflict with federal requirementsSeverability1993 c 483: See notes following RCW 50.04.293.
    SeverabilityConflict with federal requirements1982 1st ex.s. c 18: See notes following RCW 50.12.200.