Alaska Statutes Title 23, Chapter 23.20, Article 06 - Benefits

• Sec. 23.20.330 Claims.
  Claims for benefits and notices of unemployment shall be made in accordance with the regulations that the department adopts.
• Sec. 23.20.335 Notice to Employees.
  An employer shall post and maintain in places readily accessible to individuals in the service of the employer printed statements concerning the regulations or...
• Sec. 23.20.340 Determination of Claims.
  (a) An examiner designated by the department shall take the claim. The examiner shall take all evidence pertaining to the eligibility of the claimant...
• Sec. 23.20.345 Payment of Benefits.
  Benefits are payable from the fund. All benefits shall be paid through employment offices in accordance with regulations adopted by the department.
• Sec. 23.20.350 Amount of Benefits.
  (a) An individual who is paid at least $2,500 in wages during the individual's base period for employment covered by this chapter is eligible...
• Sec. 23.20.352 Additional Benefits. [Repealed, Sec. 32 Ch 32 Sla 1971].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 23.20.353 Supplemental State Benefits.
  (a) An individual is eligible to receive supplemental state benefits for a week in which(1) the individual is an "exhaustee" as defined in AS...
• Sec. 23.20.354 State Interim Benefits.
  (a) There is established a state interim benefits program. State interim benefits are payable only to the extent that money is appropriated from the...
• Sec. 23.20.355 Interstate Payment Restrictions. [Repealed, Sec. 8 Ch 106 Sla 1971].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 23.20.360 Earnings Deducted From Weekly Benefit Amount.
  The amount of benefits, excluding the allowance for dependents, payable to an insured worker for a week of unemployment shall be reduced by 75...
• Sec. 23.20.362 Disqualifying or Deductible Income.
  (a) The amount of benefits payable to an insured worker for a week of unemployment which begins in a period for which the insured...
• Sec. 23.20.365 Limited Liability of State.
  Benefits are considered due and payable under this chapter only to the extent provided in this chapter and to the extent that money is...
• Sec. 23.20.370 Benefits of Decedent or Incompetent.
  Benefits due and payable to a deceased or judicially declared incompetent person shall be paid, in accordance with regulations adopted by the department, to...
• Sec. 23.20.375 Filing Requirements.
  (a) An insured worker is entitled to receive waiting-week credit or benefits for a week of unemployment for which the insured worker has not...
• Sec. 23.20.376 Base Period Extension and Limitation.
  (a) If the department finds that during the individual's base period an individual has been incapable of work during the greater part of the...
• Sec. 23.20.378 Able to Work and Available for Suitable Work.
  (a) An insured worker is entitled to receive waiting-week credit or benefits for a week of unemployment if for that week the insured worker...
• Sec. 23.20.379 Voluntary Quit, Discharge for Misconduct, and Refusal of Work.
  (a) An insured worker is disqualified for waiting-week credit or benefits for the first week in which the insured worker is unemployed and for...
• Sec. 23.20.380 Disqualification for Benefits. [Repealed, Sec. 80 Ch 9 Sla 1980].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 23.20.381 Other Disqualifications.
  (a) Benefits are not payable to any individual on the basis of any services, substantially all of which consist of participation in sports or...
• Sec. 23.20.382 Benefits While Attending Approved Vocational Training Course.
  (a) Benefits or waiting-week credit for any week may not be denied an otherwise eligible individual because the individual is attending a vocational training...
• Sec. 23.20.383 Labor Dispute Disqualification.
  (a) An insured worker is disqualified for waiting-week credit or benefits for a week of the insured worker's unemployment if, for that week, the...
• Sec. 23.20.385 Suitable Work.
  (a) Work may not be considered suitable and benefits may not be denied under a provision of this chapter to an otherwise eligible individual...
• Sec. 23.20.387 Disqualification for Misrepresentation.
  (a) An insured worker is disqualified for benefits for the week with respect to which the false statement or misrepresentation was made and for...
• Sec. 23.20.390 Recovery of Improper Payments; Penalty.
  (a) An individual who receives a sum as benefits from the unemployment compensation fund when not entitled to it under this chapter is liable...
• Sec. 23.20.392 Deductions From Back Pay Awards.
  An employer who makes a deduction from a back pay award to an insured worker because of the insured worker's receipt of benefits under...
• Sec. 23.20.395 Waiver of Rights Void.
  (a) An agreement by an individual to waive, release, or commute the individual's right to benefits or any other rights under this chapter is...
• Sec. 23.20.400 Limitation of Fees.
  (a) An individual claiming benefits may not be charged a fee of any kind in a proceeding under this chapter by the department or...
• Sec. 23.20.401 Child Support Interception.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an individual filing a new claim for unemployment compensation must disclose whether child support obligations as...
• Sec. 23.20.403 Voluntary Income Tax Withholding.
  (a) When an individual files a new claim for unemployment compensation, the department shall advise the individual that(1) unemployment compensation benefits are subject to...
• Sec. 23.20.405 Assignment Void; Exemption of Benefits.
  (a) An assignment, pledge, or encumbrance of a right to benefits which are or may become due or payable under this chapter is void.(b)...

Last modified: November 15, 2016