Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 50 Unemployment Compensation - Chapter 50.20 Benefits And Claims

50.20.010 Benefit eligibility conditions
(1) An unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive waiting period credits or benefits with respect to any week in his or her eligibility period ...

50.20.011 Profiling system to identify individuals likely to exhaust benefits -- Confidentiality of information -- Penalty
(1) The commissioner shall establish and use a profiling system for new claimants for regular compensation under this title that identifies permanently separated workers who ...

50.20.012 Rules -- 1995 c 381
The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to implement the 1995 c 381 § § 1 and *3 amendments to RCW 50.20.010 and 50.20.043 and ...

50.20.020 Waiting period credit limitation
No week shall be counted as a waiting period week, (1) if benefits have been paid with respect thereto, and (2) unless the individual was ...

50.20.041 Health care professionals who have contracted hepatitis C -- Training
(1) Credentialed health care professionals listed in RCW 18.130.040 shall be deemed to be dislocated workers for the purpose of commissioner approval of training under ...

50.20.042 Unemployed aerospace workers -- Training
Aerospace workers unemployed as the result of downsizing and restructuring of the aerospace industry will be deemed to be dislocated workers for the purpose of ...

50.20.043 Training provision
No otherwise eligible individual shall be denied benefits for any week because the individual is in training with the approval of the commissioner, nor shall ...

50.20.044 Ineligibility for benefits for failure to attend job search workshop or training course
If an otherwise eligible individual fails without good cause, as determined by the commissioner under rules prescribed by the commissioner, to attend a job search ...

50.20.050 Disqualification for leaving work voluntarily without good cause
(1) With respect to claims that have an effective date before January 4, 2004: (a) An individual shall be disqualified from benefits beginning with the ...

50.20.060 Disqualification from benefits due to misconduct
With respect to claims that have an effective date before January 4, 2004, an individual shall be disqualified from benefits beginning with the first day ...

50.20.065 Cancellation of hourly wage credits due to felony or gross misdemeanor
With respect to claims that have an effective date before January 4, 2004: (1) An individual who has been discharged from his or her work ...

50.20.066 Disqualification from benefits due to misconduct -- Cancellation of hourly wage credits due to gross misconduct
With respect to claims that have an effective date on or after January 4, 2004: (1) An individual shall be disqualified from benefits beginning with ...

50.20.070 Disqualification for misrepresentation -- Penalties
(1) With respect to determinations delivered or mailed before January 1, 2008, an individual is disqualified for benefits for any week he or she has ...

50.20.080 Disqualification for refusal to work
An individual is disqualified for benefits, if the commissioner finds that the individual has failed without good cause, either to apply for available, suitable work ...

50.20.085 Disqualification for receipt of industrial insurance disability benefits
An individual is disqualified from benefits with respect to any day or days for which he or she is receiving, has received, or will receive ...

50.20.090 Strike or lockout disqualification -- When inapplicable
(1) An individual shall be disqualified for benefits for any week with respect to which the commissioner finds that the individual's unemployment is: (a) Due ...

50.20.095 Disqualification for attending school or institution of higher education
Any individual registered at an established school in a course of study providing scholastic instruction of twelve or more hours per week, or the equivalent ...

50.20.098 Services performed by alien
(1) Benefits shall not be paid on the basis of services performed by an alien unless the alien is an individual who was lawfully admitted ...

50.20.099 Training benefits -- Eligibility to work in the United States
(1) To ensure that unemployment insurance benefits are paid in accordance with RCW 50.20.098, the employment security department shall verify that an individual is eligible ...

50.20.100 Suitable work factors
(1) Suitable work for an individual is employment in an occupation in keeping with the individual's prior work experience, education, or training and if the ...

50.20.110 Suitable work exceptions
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, no work shall be deemed to be suitable and benefits shall not be denied under this title to ...

50.20.113 Unemployment of sport or athletic event participant during period between sport seasons
Benefits shall not be paid to any individual on the basis of any services, substantially all of which consist of participating in sports or athletic ...

50.20.115 Unemployment due to vacation
When an unemployed individual is qualified for receipt of unemployment compensation benefits by the specific provisions of RCW 50.20.010, 50.20.120 and 50.20.130, and such individual ...

50.20.117 Jury service
No otherwise eligible individual shall be denied benefits for any week because he or she is serving as a prospective or impaneled juror in any ...

50.20.118 Unemployment while in approved training
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an otherwise eligible individual shall not be denied benefits for any week because he or she is ...

50.20.119 Part-time workers
(1) With respect to claims that have an effective date on or after January 2, 2005, an otherwise eligible individual may not be denied benefits ...

50.20.120 Amount of benefits
*** CHANGE IN 2009 *** (SEE 1906-S.SL) *** (1)(a) Subject to the other provisions of this title, benefits shall be payable to any eligible individual ...

50.20.130 Deduction from weekly benefit amount
If an eligible individual is available for work for less than a full week, he shall be paid his weekly benefit amount reduced by one-seventh ...

50.20.140 Filing applications and claims -- Definitions
An application for initial determination, a claim for waiting period, or a claim for benefits shall be filed in accordance with such rules as the ...

50.20.150 Notice of application or claim
The applicant for initial determination, his most recent employing unit as stated by the applicant, and any other interested party which the commissioner by regulation ...

50.20.160 Redetermination
(1) A determination of amount of benefits potentially payable issued pursuant to the provisions of RCW 50.20.120 and 50.20.140 shall not serve as a basis ...

50.20.170 Payment of benefits
An individual who has received an initial determination finding that he is potentially entitled to receive waiting period credit or benefits shall, during the benefit ...

50.20.180 Denial of benefits
If waiting period credit or the payment of benefits shall be denied to any claimant for any week or weeks, the claimant and such other ...

50.20.190 Recovery of benefit payments
(1) An individual who is paid any amount as benefits under this title to which he or she is not entitled shall, unless otherwise relieved ...

50.20.191 Authority to compromise benefit overpayments
See RCW 50.24.020. ...

50.20.192 Collection of benefit overpayments, limitation of actions
See RCW 50.24.190. ...

50.20.193 Chargeoff of uncollectible benefit overpayments
See RCW 50.24.200. ...

50.20.195 Assessed interest -- Use
All receipts from interest assessed against unemployment insurance claimants shall be deposited in the administrative contingency fund and shall be used for the purpose of ...

50.20.200 Nonliability of state
Benefits shall be deemed to be due and payable under this title only to the extent provided in this title and to the extent that ...

50.20.210 Notification of availability of basic health plan
The commissioner shall notify any person filing a claim under this chapter who resides in a local area served by the Washington basic health plan ...

50.20.220 Federal income tax deduction and withholding -- Notice -- Rules
(1) An individual filing a new claim for unemployment insurance must, at the time of filing such claim, be advised that: (a) Unemployment insurance is ...

50.20.230 Electronic labor exchange system
The employment security department will ensure that within a reasonably short period of time after the initiation of benefits, all unemployment insurance claimants, except those ...

50.20.240 Job search monitoring
(1)(a) To ensure that following the initial application for benefits, an individual is actively engaged in searching for work, the employment security department shall implement ...

50.20.250 Finding -- Self-employment assistance program -- Rules
(1) The legislature finds that the establishment of a self-employment assistance program would assist unemployed individuals and create new businesses and job opportunities in Washington ...