Effective Sunday of the calendar week in which January 1, | 30 |
1988, occurs and on each similar day of each year thereafter, the | 31 |
current maximum weekly benefit amount for each dependency class | 32 |
shall be adjusted based on the statewide average weekly wage. Any | 33 |
percentage
increase in such statewide average weekly wage
between | 34 |
the wage computed for the current year and the wage
computed for | 35 |
the preceding year shall be used to increase the
maximum amounts | 36 |
then in effect by the same percentage. Such
increased amounts
will | 37 |
be effective with respect to
apphcationsapplications for benefit | 38 |
rights
filed during the fifty-two consecutive
calendar weeks | 39 |
beginning
with such Sunday date. | 40 |
(4) Effective Sunday of the calendar week in which January
1, | 60 |
occurs for calendar years 1988 through 1993, the maximum
weekly | 61 |
benefit amount payable for an individual's dependency
class for | 62 |
those years shall be computed in accordance with this
division, | 63 |
with an additional increase added to the prior year's
increase | 64 |
equal to one-sixth of total percentage increase that
otherwise | 65 |
would have been available in calendar years 1983, 1984,
1985, | 66 |
1986, and 1987, if in those years an adjustment in the
maximum | 67 |
weekly benefit amount would have been made pursuant to
this | 68 |
division. | 69 |
Division (B)(5) of this section applies to all new claims | 80 |
filed on and after the Sunday of the calendar week in which | 81 |
January 1, 1991, occurs, provided that the maximum weekly benefit | 82 |
amounts established for the dependency classes prior to such date | 83 |
apply to all claims until the maximum weekly benefit
amounts as | 84 |
determined pursuant to division (B)(5) of this section equal or | 85 |
exceed the maximum weekly benefit amounts in effect prior to such | 86 |
date. | 87 |
(C) Benefits are payable to each partially unemployed | 88 |
individual otherwise eligible on account of each week of | 89 |
involuntary partial unemployment after the specified waiting | 90 |
period in an amount equal to the individual's weekly benefit | 91 |
amount less that
part of the remuneration payable to the | 92 |
individual with
respect to such week
which is in excess of twenty | 93 |
per cent of the individual's
weekly benefit
amount, and the | 94 |
resulting amount rounded to the next lower
multiple of one dollar. | 95 |
(D) The total benefits to which an individual is entitled
in | 96 |
any benefit year, whether for partial or total unemployment,
or | 97 |
both, shall not exceed the lesser of the following two
amounts: | 98 |
(1) an amount equal to twenty-six times the
individual's weekly | 99 |
benefit amount determined in accordance with division (B) of this | 100 |
section and this division, or (2) an amount computed by taking
the | 101 |
sum of twenty times the individual's weekly benefit
amount for the | 102 |
first
twenty base period qualifying weeks plus one times the | 103 |
weekly
benefit amount for each additional qualifying week beyond | 104 |
the
first twenty qualifying weeks in the individual's base
period. | 105 |
(1)(i) Any natural child, stepchild, or adopted child offor | 122 |
whom the
individual claiming benefits for whom such individual at | 123 |
the
beginning of the individual's current benefit year is | 124 |
supplying
and for at
least ninety consecutive days, or for the | 125 |
duration of
the
parental or custodial relationship if it existed | 126 |
less than ninety days,
immediately preceding the beginning of such | 127 |
benefit year, has
supplied more than one-half of the cost of | 128 |
support and if such
child on the beginning date of such benefit | 129 |
year was under
eighteen years of age, or if unable to work because | 130 |
of permanent
physical or mental disability; | 131 |
(2)(ii) The legally married wife or husband of the individual | 132 |
claiming benefits for whom more than one-half the cost of support | 133 |
has been supplied by such individual for at least ninety | 134 |
consecutive days, or for the duration of the marital relationship | 135 |
if it has existed for less than ninety days, immediately
preceding | 136 |
the beginning of such individual's current benefit year
and such | 137 |
wife or husband was living with such individual and had
an average | 138 |
weekly income, in such period, not in excess of
twenty-five per | 139 |
cent of the claimant's average weekly wage. | 140 |