SECTION 815.171. High Unemployment Period: Maximum Total Extended Benefit Amount

(a) If the conditions under §815.170(a) of this subchapter are met, and the average rate of total unemployment equals or exceeds 8 percent, a high unemployment period shall exist.

(b) Effective with respect to weeks beginning in a high unemployment period, the total extended benefit amount payable to an eligible claimant for the claimant's eligibility period is the lesser of:

(1) 80 percent of the total amount of regular compensation payable to the claimant during the claimant's benefit year under the Act;

(2) 20 times the claimant's average weekly benefit amount; or

(3) 46 times the claimant's average weekly benefit amount, reduced by the regular compensation paid, during the claimant's benefit year under the Act.

(c) Pursuant to §209.025 of the Act, if the full federal funding for Extended Benefits provides for an additional extended benefit amount payable to an eligible claimant in excess of that provided for in subsection (b) of this section, that amount shall be the total extended benefit amount.

Source Note: The provisions of this §815.171 adopted to be effective November 2, 2009, 34 TexReg 7655; amended to be effective May 2, 2011, 36 TexReg 2735; amended to be effective October 12, 2020, 45 TexReg 7273