Provides that a claimant eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits shall also be entitled to receive a dependent allowance which shall be equal to forty-five dollars per dependent per week.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9643
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 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 authorizing a claimant to
receive a dependent allowance in addition to unemployment insurance
benefits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 590 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 13 to read as follows:
3 13. Dependent allowance. (a) In addition to the benefits received
4 pursuant to this section, a claimant eligible for such benefits shall
5 also be entitled to receive a dependent allowance. Such dependent allow-
6 ance shall be equal to forty-five dollars per dependent per week.
7 (b) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "dependent" shall
8 mean:
9 (i) children eighteen years old and younger, including foster chil-
10 dren, stepchildren, and children for whom the claimant has at least
11 fifty percent custody in a shared custody arrangement;
12 (ii) full-time students up to the age of twenty-six;
13 (iii) nonworking adults in the household ages sixty and older; and
14 (iv) adults with disabilities in the household.
15 § 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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