Sec. 31-232a. Additional benefits payable during periods of substantial unemployment.
Sec. 31-232a. Additional benefits payable during periods of substantial unemployment. When an extended benefit period is in effect as provided in section 31-232b,
each person who, prior to the expiration of his current benefit year, has received the
maximum amount of benefits to which he is entitled, under the provisions of section 31-231b, shall be entitled to receive, except as hereinafter provided and except as provided in
section 31-232h, during the balance of his current benefit year, at his current benefit
rate and dependency allowances thirteen times his benefit rate for total unemployment
and dependency allowances. No person who is eligible to receive benefits under an Act
of Congress providing for unemployment compensation benefits, pursuant to a contract
entered into by the administrator, shall receive benefits under this section until he has
received the full amount of his entitlement under such Act of Congress.
(1959, P.A. 680, S. 3; 1961, P.A. 589; 1967, P.A. 790, S. 11; 1969, P.A. 510; October, 1970, P.A. 1, S. 11; 1971, P.A.
835, S. 13; P.A. 76-414, S. 1; P.A. 82-361, S. 2, 10.)
History: 1961 act clarified provisions and required that benefits be paid under act of Congress if person is eligible for
such benefits before payment is made under this section and limited benefits to not more than thirty-nine times the total
unemployment benefit rate; 1967 act deleted provisions re "durational" amount of payments and limited benefits to not
more than 75% of total earnings in base period of benefit year including dependency allowances; 1969 act deleted provision
which limited benefits to no more than thirty-nine times the total unemployment benefit rate and no more than 75% of
total earnings in base period of benefit year including dependency allowances; 1970 act added exception re Sec. 31-232h;
1971 act redefined "rate of insured unemployment"; P.A. 76-414 made provisions applicable to extended benefit periods
rather than to periods of substantial unemployment, deleting provision authorizing administrator to determine rate of
insured unemployment and deleting definition of "rate of insured unemployment"; P.A. 82-361 deleted reference to benefit
periods in effect solely by reason of a national "on" indicator in keeping with amendment to Sec. 31-232b made by the
act, effective September 26, 1982.