Washington Administrative Code › Title 192 - Employment Security Department › UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE › Chapter 192-240 - Extended benefits › Section 192-240-070 - What happens if I am paid emergency or extended benefits when I am eligible for a new unemployment claim?

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
If you are paid pandemic unemployment assistance established
				  under Sec. 2102 of Public Law No. 116-136, as amended, emergency unemployment
				  compensation (which includes pandemic emergency unemployment compensation under
				  Sec. 2107 of Public Law No. 166-136, as amended), state extended benefits, or
				  any similar state or federal extension, and it is later discovered that you
				  were eligible for a regular unemployment claim during all or part of the period
				  in which you received such benefits, the regular unemployment claim takes
				  priority. If you were paid pandemic unemployment assistance, and it is later
				  discovered that you were eligible for pandemic emergency unemployment
				  compensation or extended benefits, a claim for pandemic emergency unemployment
				  compensation or extended benefits takes priority. The balance on your new
				  unemployment claim will be adjusted for any week(s) at issue, meaning those
				  weeks in which you should have received regular unemployment benefits, subject
				  to the following:
(1) Except as
				provided in subsection (4) of this section, you may not be paid twice for the
				same week
(2) If your new weekly
				benefit amount is equal to the amount you were paid for the weeks at issue, the
				amount you were paid in pandemic unemployment assistance, emergency
				unemployment compensation or extended benefits will be deducted from the
				maximum benefits payable on your new claim.
Example: Your previous weekly benefit amount was $500. You
				  received emergency unemployment compensation for eight weeks at this amount
				  when it was discovered you were eligible for a new claim in the amount of $500.
				  The $500 paid for eight weeks will be deducted from the maximum benefits
				  payable on your new claim.
(3) If your new weekly benefit amount is
				lower than the amount you were paid for the weeks at issue, the amount you were
				paid in pandemic unemployment assistance, emergency unemployment compensation
				or extended benefits that is equivalent to the weekly benefit amount on your
				new claim will be deducted from the maximum benefits payable on your new claim.
				The difference between the amounts paid in pandemic unemployment assistance,
				emergency unemployment compensation or extended benefits for the week(s) at
				issue and the weekly benefit amount on your new claim will be waived as
				provided in
				RCW
				   50.20.190.
Example: Your previous weekly benefit amount was $500. You
				  received emergency unemployment compensation for eight weeks at this amount
				  when it was discovered you were eligible for a new claim in the amount of $350.
				  The $350 for eight weeks will be deducted from the maximum benefits payable on
				  your new claim. The $150 difference between your previous weekly benefit amount
				  and your new weekly benefit amount will be waived.
(4) If your new weekly benefit amount is
				higher than the amount you were paid for the week(s) at issue, the amount you
				were paid in emergency unemployment compensation or extended benefits will be
				supplemented so that you receive your new weekly benefit amount for the weeks
				at issue and the total deducted from the maximum benefits payable on your new
				claim.
For example: Your previous weekly benefit amount was $350.
				  You received emergency unemployment compensation for eight weeks at this amount
				  when it was discovered you were eligible for a new claim in the amount of $500.
				  You will be paid an additional $150 for each of the eight weeks at issue and
				  the total deducted from the maximum benefits payable on your new
				  claim.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					    50.12.010,
					 50.12.040, and
					 50.20.010. 09-24-011, §
											192-240-070, filed 11/20/09,
					 effective 12/21/09.