Texas Labor Code Title 4, Chapter 209 - Extended Benefits

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 209.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Eligibility period" means the period consisting of the benefit periods in an individual's benefit year that begin in an extended benefit...
• Texas Section 209.002 - Application Of Provisions Relating To Regular Benefits
  A provision of this subtitle or a commission rule applicable to a claim for or the payment of regular benefits applies to a claim for...

SUBCHAPTER B DETERMINATION OF EXTENDED BENEFIT PERIOD

• Texas Section 209.003 - Findings
  (a) The commission shall make findings as necessary to determine an extended benefit period, compute the rate of insured unemployment, and determine the eligibility or...
• Texas Section 209.021 - Beginning And Ending Dates For Extended Benefit Period
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an extended benefit period begins with the third week after a week with a state "on" indicator. (b)...
• Texas Section 209.022 - State "On" And "Off" Indicator Weeks
  (a) Except for a week to which Subsection (b) applies, a week is a state "on" indicator week if the rate of insured unemployment for...
• Texas Section 209.023 - Rate Of Insured Unemployment
  For the purpose of Section 209.022, the rate of insured unemployment is computed by: (1) dividing: (A) the average weekly number of individuals filing claims...
• Texas Section 209.024 - Public Announcement Of Extended Benefit Period
  The commission shall publicly announce, in accordance with commission rule, the beginning of each extended benefit period and the termination of each extended benefit period....

SUBCHAPTER C ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR EXTENDED BENEFITS

• Texas Section 209.025 - Federal Funding Of Extended Benefits
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the commission by rule may adjust the extended benefit eligibility period as necessary to maximize the receipt of...
• Texas Section 209.041 - Eligibility For Extended Benefits
  An individual is eligible to receive extended benefits for a benefit period of unemployment in the individual's eligibility period if, with respect to the benefit...
• Texas Section 209.042 - Exhaustion Of Regular Benefits
  (a) An individual has exhausted regular benefits with respect to a benefit period of unemployment in the individual's eligibility period if the individual: (1) before...
• Texas Section 209.043 - Requirement To Seek Work
  (a) An individual is ineligible for payment of extended benefits for a benefit period in the individual's eligibility period if during that period the individual...
• Texas Section 209.044 - Requirement To Accept Or Apply For Suitable Work
  An individual is ineligible for payment of extended benefits for a benefit period in the individual's eligibility period if during that period the individual failed...
• Texas Section 209.045 - Employment Service Referrals To Suitable Work
  The employment service shall refer a claimant entitled to extended benefits to suitable work that meets the standards prescribed in Sections 209.046, 209.047(a), and 209.047(b)....
• Texas Section 209.046 - Exceptions To Requirement To Accept Or Apply For Suitable Work
  An individual may not be denied extended benefits for failure to accept a job offer of suitable work or apply for suitable work if: (1)...
• Texas Section 209.047 - Suitable Work
  (a) For the purposes of this subchapter, and subject to Subsections (b) and (c), suitable work for an individual is work: (1) within the individual's...
• Texas Section 209.048 - Duration Of Ineligibility; Work Requirements
  An individual ineligible for extended benefits under Section 209.043 or 209.044 is ineligible for benefits for a period: (1) beginning with the first day of...
• Texas Section 209.049 - Ineligibility Due To Disqualification
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an individual is ineligible to receive extended benefits for a benefit period in the individual's eligibility period if...

SUBCHAPTER D AMOUNT OF EXTENDED BENEFITS

• Texas Section 209.050 - Interstate Claim
  (a) An individual is ineligible for extended benefits payable for a benefit period under an interstate claim filed in any state under an interstate benefit...
• Texas Section 209.061 - Weekly Extended Benefit Amount
  The weekly extended benefit amount payable to an individual for a benefit period of total unemployment in the individual's eligibility period is equal to the...
• Texas Section 209.062 - Maximum Total Extended Benefit Amount
  The total extended benefit amount payable to an eligible individual for the individual's eligibility period is 50 percent of the total amount of regular benefits...

SUBCHAPTER E FINANCING OF EXTENDED BENEFITS

• Texas Section 209.063 - Effect Of Trade Readjustment Allowances
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, the remaining balance of extended benefits that an individual would otherwise be entitled to receive in an...
• Texas Section 209.081 - Unemployment Compensation Fund
  (a) Extended benefits shall be paid from the compensation fund. (b) Payments made by the federal government for its share of extended benefits shall be...
• Texas Section 209.082 - Charges To Reimbursing Employer
  Fifty percent of the extended benefit payments based on benefit wage credits from a reimbursing employer shall be charged to the employer's account and reimbursed...
• Texas Section 209.083 - Charges To Taxed Employer
  (a) Fifty percent of extended benefit payments based on benefit wage credits from a taxed employer are chargebacks and must be used in determining the...
• Texas Section 209.084 - Charges To Governmental Employer
  The total amount of extended benefit payments shall be charged to the employer if the payments are based on benefit wage credits earned from: (1)...
• Texas Section 209.0845 - Charges To Indian Tribe
  The total amount of extended benefit payments that are attributable to service in the employ of an Indian tribe and not reimbursed by the federal...
• Texas Section 209.085 - Notice To Taxed Base Period Employer
  (a) The notice to a taxed base period employer of a claim for benefits under Section 204.023 or 204.027 must state that if the claim...

Last modified: September 28, 2016