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§ 50-7-501. Unemployment Compensation Fund

Establishment and Control. There is established as a special fund, within the state treasury, an unemployment compensation fund, which shall be administered by the administrator of the division of employment security exclusively for the purposes of this chapter. This fund shall consist of all: Premiums collected under this chapter; Interest earned upon any money in […]

§ 50-7-502. Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund

There is created in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the unemployment compensation administration fund. All moneys that are deposited or paid into this fund are appropriated and made available to the commissioner. All moneys in this fund shall be expended solely for the purpose of defraying the cost of administration […]

§ 50-7-305. Extended Benefits Program

As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: “Eligibility period” of a claimant means the period consisting of the weeks in the claimant’s benefit year that begin in an extended benefit period and, if the claimant’s benefit year ends within the extended benefit period, any weeks thereafter that begin in that period; “Exhaustee” […]

§ 50-7-306. Seasonal Employment

As used in this section: “Active seasonal period” means the regularly recurring period of twenty-six (26) consecutive weeks or less within a calendar year as approved by the department in which a seasonal employer customarily carries on all work operations; “Inactive seasonal period” means the period within a calendar year in which there is a […]

§ 50-7-217. “Benefit Year” Defined

“Benefit year” with respect to any individual means the fifty-two (52) consecutive week period beginning with the first day of the first week with respect to which the individual first files a valid claim for benefits, and thereafter the fifty-two (52) consecutive week period beginning with the first day of the first week with respect […]

§ 50-7-218. “Base Period” Defined

“Base period” means the first four (4) of the last five (5) completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual’s benefit year; provided, that if the first quarter of the last five (5) completed calendar quarters was included in the base period applicable to any individual’s previous benefit year, the individual’s base […]

§ 50-7-301. Benefit Formula

Payments of Benefits.  Benefits shall be payable from the fund in the manner provided by this section. All benefits shall be paid through employment offices in accordance with regulations  the commissioner prescribes. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, any amount of unemployment compensation payable to any claimant for any weeks if […]