How Long Can I Get Benefits?

• Normal benefits payable for up to 130 days in benefit year
• Extended benefits
  • Need 10 or more years' service
  • Generally 13 consecutive weeks of payments
• Accelerated benefits under certain circumstances

Notes:

• Exhausting one type of benefit (unemployment or sickness) does not exhaust other.
• Maximum of 26 weeks of normal benefits for unemployment and 26 weeks for sickness.
• Extended benefits are payable if employee:
  • has 10 years of service
  • exhausts normal unemployment or sickness benefits, or
  • is not qualified for normal benefits in current year but was in previous benefit year.
• No waiting period for extended benefits.
• Accelerated benefits are payable if employee:
  • has 10 years of service
  • does not have sufficient earnings to qualify in current year, but will qualify in next benefit year (July 2009)
  • has 14 or more consecutive days of unemployment or sickness.