Section 61-6-40 - Maximum extended benefits payable in year--Reduction of total extended benefitamount.
61-6-40. Maximum extended benefits payable in year--Reduction of total extended benefit amount. The total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible individual with respect to the individual's applicable benefit year shall be the least of the following amounts:
(1) Fifty percent of the total amount of regular benefits which were payable to the individual under this title in the individual's applicable benefit year;
(2) Thirteen times the individual's weekly benefit amount which was payable to the individual under this title for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year.
However, during any fiscal year in which federal payments to states under section 204 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 are reduced under an order issued under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the total extended benefit amount payable to an individual with respect to the individual's applicable benefit year shall be reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate of the reductions under § 61-6-39 in the weekly amounts paid to the individual.
Source: SL 1971, ch 276, § 90; SL 1987, ch 388, § 6; SL 2008, ch 277, § 145.