A06168 Summary:
| BILL NO | A06168A |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Lunsford |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §590, Lab L | |
| Increases the unemployment insurance minimum benefit amount to $860 per week. | |
A06168 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6168--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 26, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to increasing the unemploy- ment insurance minimum weekly benefit amount The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 590 of the labor 2 law, as amended by section 8 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of 3 2013, is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) A claimant's weekly benefit amount shall be one twenty-sixth of 5 the remuneration paid during the highest calendar quarter of the base 6 period by employers, liable for contributions or payments in lieu of 7 contributions under this article, provided the claimant has remuneration 8 paid in all four calendar quarters during [his or her] such claimant's 9 base period or alternate base period, but shall not be less than eight 10 hundred sixty dollars. However, for any claimant who has remuneration 11 paid in all four calendar quarters during [his or her] such claimant's 12 base period or alternate base period and whose high calendar quarter 13 remuneration during the base period is three thousand five hundred 14 seventy-five dollars or less, the benefit amount shall be one twenty- 15 fifth of the remuneration paid during the highest calendar quarter of 16 the base period by employers liable for contributions or payments in 17 lieu of contributions under this article, but shall not be less than 18 eight hundred sixty dollars. A claimant's weekly benefit shall be one 19 twenty-sixth of the average remuneration paid in the two highest quar- 20 ters paid during the base period or alternate base period by employers 21 liable for contributions or payments in lieu of contributions under this 22 article when the claimant has remuneration paid in two or three calendar 23 quarters provided however, that a claimant whose high calendar quarter 24 is four thousand dollars or less but greater than three thousand five 25 hundred seventy-five dollars shall have a weekly benefit amount of one 26 twenty-sixth of such high calendar quarter, but shall not be less than 27 eight hundred sixty dollars. However, for any claimant who has remunera- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09341-02-5A. 6168--A 2 1 tion paid in two or three calendar quarters during [his or her] such 2 claimant's base period or alternate base period and whose high calendar 3 quarter remuneration during the base period is three thousand five 4 hundred seventy-five dollars or less, the benefit amount shall be one 5 twenty-fifth of the remuneration paid during the highest calendar quar- 6 ter of the base period by employers liable for contributions or payments 7 in lieu of contributions under this article, but shall not be less than 8 eight hundred sixty dollars. Any claimant whose high calendar quarter 9 remuneration during the base period is more than three thousand five 10 hundred seventy-five dollars shall not have a weekly benefit amount less 11 than [one] eight hundred [forty-three] sixty dollars. The weekly benefit 12 amount, so computed, that is not a multiple of one dollar shall be 13 lowered to the next multiple of one dollar. On the first Monday of 14 September, nineteen hundred ninety-eight the weekly benefit amount shall 15 not exceed three hundred sixty-five dollars nor be less than forty 16 dollars, until the first Monday of September, two thousand, at which 17 time the maximum benefit payable pursuant to this subdivision shall 18 equal one-half of the state average weekly wage for covered employment 19 as calculated by the department no sooner than July first, two thousand 20 and no later than August first, two thousand, rounded down to the lowest 21 dollar. On and after the first Monday of October, two thousand fourteen, 22 the weekly benefit shall not be less than one hundred dollars, nor shall 23 it exceed four hundred twenty dollars until the first Monday of October, 24 two thousand fifteen when the maximum benefit amount shall be four 25 hundred twenty-five dollars, until the first Monday of October, two 26 thousand sixteen when the maximum benefit amount shall be four hundred 27 thirty dollars, until the first Monday of October, two thousand seven- 28 teen when the maximum benefit amount shall be four hundred thirty-five 29 dollars, until the first Monday of October, two thousand eighteen when 30 the maximum benefit amount shall be four hundred fifty dollars, until 31 the first Monday of October, two thousand nineteen when the maximum 32 benefit amount shall be thirty-six percent of the average weekly wage 33 until the first Monday of October, two thousand twenty when the maximum 34 benefit amount shall be thirty-eight percent of the average weekly wage, 35 until the first Monday of October, two thousand twenty-one when the 36 maximum benefit amount shall be forty percent of the average weekly 37 wage, until the first Monday of October, two thousand twenty-two when 38 the maximum benefit amount shall be forty-two percent of the average 39 weekly wage, until the first Monday of October, two thousand twenty- 40 three [when the maximum benefit amount]. On and after the first Monday 41 of October, two thousand twenty-five, the weekly benefit shall not be 42 less than eight hundred sixty dollars, nor shall [be] it exceed forty- 43 four percent of the average weekly wage, until the first Monday of Octo- 44 ber, two thousand twenty-four when the maximum benefit amount shall be 45 forty-six percent of the average weekly wage, until the first Monday of 46 October, two thousand twenty-five when the maximum benefit amount shall 47 be forty-eight percent of the average weekly wage, until the first 48 Monday of October, two thousand twenty-six and each year thereafter on 49 the first Monday of October when the maximum benefit amount shall be 50 fifty percent of the average weekly wage provided, however, that in no 51 event shall the maximum benefit amount be reduced from the previous 52 year. 53 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 54 have become a law.