Provides that unemployment insurance benefits shall not be paid in an amount greater than thirty times the claimant's weekly benefit rate in any benefit year, subject to certain exceptions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9555
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. VALDEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to extending the duration of
unemployment insurance benefits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 590 of the labor law, as amended
2 by chapter 277 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
3 4. Duration. Benefits shall not be paid in an amount greater than
4 [twenty-six] thirty times the claimant's weekly benefit rate in any
5 benefit year, except as provided in section six hundred one and subdivi-
6 sion two of section five hundred ninety-nine of this [chapter] title.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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