421.20 Charging benefits against employer's account; benefits improperly paid; basis; separate determination of amount and duration of benefits; disqualifying act or discharge; order of charges; separating employee; limitation on charges for regular benefits; benefits based on multiemployer credit weeks; training benefits and extended benefits; notice of charges; spouse as full-time member of United States armed forces.
Sec. 20.
(a) Benefits paid shall be charged against the employer's account as of the quarter in which the payments are made. If the bureau determines that any benefits charged against an employer's account were improperly paid, an amount equal to the charge based on those benefits shall be credited to the employer's account and a corresponding charge shall be made to the nonchargeable benefits account as of the current period or, in the discretion of the bureau, as of the date of the charge. Benefits paid to an individual as a result of an employer's failure to provide the unemployment agency with separation, employment, and wage data as required by section 32 shall be considered as benefits properly paid to the extent that the benefits are chargeable to the noncomplying employer.
(b) For benefit years established before October 1, 2000, benefits paid to an individual shall be based upon the credit weeks earned during the individual's base period and shall be charged against the experience accounts of the contributing employers or charged to the accounts of the reimbursing employers from whom the individual earned credit weeks. If the individual earned credit weeks from more than 1 employer, a separate determination shall be made of the amount and duration of benefits based upon the total credit weeks and wages earned with each employer. Benefits paid in accordance with the determinations shall be charged against the experience account of a contributing employer or charged to the account of a reimbursing employer beginning with the most recent employer first and thereafter as necessary against other base period employers in inverse order to that in which the claimant earned his or her last credit week with those employers. If there is any disqualifying act or discharge under section 29(1) with an employer, benefits based upon credit weeks earned from that employer before the disqualifying act or discharge shall be charged only after the exhaustion of charges as provided above. Benefits based upon those credit weeks shall be charged first against the experience account of the contributing employer involved or to the account of the reimbursing employer involved in the most recent disqualifying act or discharge and thereafter as necessary in similar inverse order against other base period employers involved in disqualifying acts or discharges. The order of charges determined as of the beginning date of a benefit year shall remain fixed during the benefit year. For benefit years established on or after October 1, 2000, the claimant's full weekly benefit rate shall be charged to the account or experience account of the claimant's most recent separating employer for each of the first 2 weeks of benefits payable to the claimant in the benefit year in accordance with the monetary determination issued pursuant to section 32. However, if the total sum of wages paid by an employer totals $200.00 or less, those wages shall be used for purposes of benefit payment, but any benefit charges attributable to those wages shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account. Thereafter, remaining weeks of benefits payable in the benefit year shall be paid in accordance with the monetary determination and shall be charged proportionally to all base period employers, with the charge to each base period employer being made on the basis of the ratio that total wages paid by the employer in the base period bears to total wages paid by all employers in the base period. However, if the claimant did not perform services for the most recent separating employer or employing entity and receive earnings for performing the services of at least the amount a claimant must earn, in the manner prescribed in section 29(3), to requalify for benefits following a disqualification under section 29(1)(a), (b), (i), or (k) during the claimant's most recent period of employment with the employer or employing entity, then all weeks of benefits payable in the benefit year shall be charged proportionally to all base period employers, with the charge to each base period employer being made on the basis of the ratio that total wages paid by the employer in the base period bears to total wages paid by all employers in the base period. If the claimant performed services for the most recent separating employing entity and received earnings for performing the services of at least the amount a claimant must earn, in the manner prescribed in section 29(3), to requalify for benefits following a disqualification under section 29(1)(a), (b), (i), or (k) during the claimant's most recent period of employment for the employing entity but the separating employing entity was not a liable employer, the first 2 weeks of benefits payable to the claimant shall be charged proportionally to all base period employers, with the charge to each base period employer made on the basis of the ratio that total wages paid by the employer in the base period bears to total wages paid by all employers in the base period. The "separating employer" is the employer that caused the individual to be unemployed as defined in section 48.
(c) For benefit years established before October 1, 2000, and except as otherwise provided in section 11(d) or (g) or section 46a, the charges for regular benefits to any reimbursing employer or to any contributing employer's experience account shall not exceed the weekly benefit rate multiplied by 3/4 the number of credit weeks earned by the individual during his or her base period from that employer. If the resultant product is not an even multiple of 1/2 the weekly benefit rate, the amount shall be raised to an amount equal to the next higher multiple of 1/2 the weekly benefit rate, and in the case of an individual who was employed by only 1 employer in his or her base period and who earned 34 credit weeks with that employer, the product shall be raised to the next higher multiple of the weekly benefit rate.
(d) For benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000, and except as otherwise provided in section 11(d) or (g) or section 46, the charges for regular benefits to any reimbursing employer's account or to any contributing employer's experience account shall not exceed either the amount derived by multiplying by 2 the weekly benefit rate chargeable to the employer in accordance with subsection (b) if the employer is the separating employer and is chargeable for the first 2 weeks of benefits, or the amount derived from the percentage of the weekly benefit rate chargeable to the employer in accordance with subsection (b), multiplied by the number of weeks of benefits chargeable to base period employers based on base period wages, to which the individual is entitled as provided in section 27(d), if the employer is a base period employer, or both of these amounts if the employer was both the chargeable separating employer and a base period employer.
(e) For benefit years beginning before October 1, 2000:
(1) If an individual has multiemployer credit weeks in his or her base period, and if it becomes necessary to use those credit weeks as a basis for benefit payments, a single determination shall be made of the individual's weekly benefit rate and maximum amount of benefits based on the individual's multiemployer credit weeks and the wages earned in those credit weeks. Each employer involved in the individual's multiemployer credit weeks shall be an interested party to the determination. The proviso in section 29(2) does not apply to multiemployer credit weeks, nor does the reduction provision of section 29(4) apply to benefit entitlement based upon those credit weeks.
(2) The charge for benefits based on multiemployer credit weeks shall be allocated to each employer involved on the basis of the ratio that the total wages earned during the total multiemployer credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with the employer bears to the total amount of wages earned during the total multiemployer credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with all such employers, computed to the nearest cent. However, if an adjusted weekly benefit rate is determined in accordance with section 27(f), the charge to the employer who has contributed to the financing of the retirement plan shall be reduced by the same amount by which the weekly benefit rate was adjusted under section 27(f). Benefits for a week of unemployment allocated under this subsection to a contributing employer shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account if the claimant during that week earns remuneration with that employer that equals or exceeds the amount of benefits allocated to that employer.
(3) Benefits paid in accordance with the determination based on multiemployer credit weeks shall be allocated to each employer involved and charged as of the quarter in which the payments are made. Notice of charges made under this subsection shall be given to each employer by means of a current listing of charges, at least weekly, or of a quarterly statement of charges. The listing or statement shall specify the weeks for which benefits were paid based on multiemployer credit weeks and the amount of benefits paid chargeable to that employer for each week. The notice shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of sections 21(a) and 32(d) that notification be given each employer of benefits charged against that employer's account by means of a copy or listing of the benefit check, and all protest and appeal rights applicable to benefit check copies or listings shall also apply to the notice of charges. If an employer receives both a current listing of charges and a quarterly statement of charges under this subsection, all protest and appeal rights shall only apply to the first notice given.
(f) For benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000, if benefits for a week of unemployment are charged to 2 or more base period employers, the share of the benefits allocated and charged under this section to a contributing employer shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account if the claimant during that week earns remuneration with that employer that equals or exceeds the amount of benefits charged to that employer.
(g) For benefit years beginning before October 1, 2000:
(1) Training benefits as provided in section 27(g), and extended benefits as provided in section 64, shall be allocated to each reimbursing employer involved in the individual's base period of the claim to which the benefits are related, on the basis of the ratio that the total wages earned during the total credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with a reimbursing employer bears to the total amount of wages earned during the total credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with all employers.
(2) Training benefits and extended benefits, to the extent that they are not reimbursable by the federal government and have been allocated to a reimbursing employer, shall be charged to that reimbursing employer. A contributing employer's experience account shall not be charged with training benefits. Training benefits based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent that they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account. Extended benefits paid and based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent that they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to that employer's experience account.
(3) If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable only to a single reimbursing employer, the benefits shall be charged in accordance with subsection (a). If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable to more than 1 reimbursing employer, or to 1 or more reimbursing employers and the nonchargeable benefits account, the benefits shall be charged as of the quarter in which the payments are made.
(4) Notice of charges made under this subsection shall be given to each employer by means of a current listing of charges, at least weekly, and subsequently by a quarterly summary statement of charges. The listing shall specify the name and social security number of each claimant paid benefits during the week, the weeks for which the benefits were paid, and the amount of benefits chargeable to that employer paid for each week. The quarterly statement of charges shall list each claimant by name and social security number and shall show total benefit payments chargeable to that employer and made to each claimant during the calendar quarter. The listing shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of sections 21(a) and 32(d) that notification be given each employer of benefits charged against that employer's account by means of a listing of the benefit check. All protest and appeal rights applicable to benefit check listings shall also apply to the notice of charges. If an employer receives both a current listing of charges and a quarterly statement of charges under this subsection, all protest and appeal rights shall only apply to the first notice given.
(h) For benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000:
(1) Training benefits as provided in section 27(g), and extended benefits as provided in section 64, shall be charged to each reimbursing employer in the base period of the claim to which the benefits are related, on the basis of the ratio that the total wages paid by a reimbursing employer during the base period bears to the total wages paid by all reimbursing employers in the base period.
(2) Training benefits, and extended benefits to the extent they are not reimbursable by the federal government and have been allocated to a reimbursing employer, shall be charged to that reimbursing employer. A contributing employer's experience account shall not be charged with training benefits. Training benefits based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account. Extended benefits paid and based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to that employer's experience account.
(3) If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable only to a single reimbursing employer, the benefits shall be charged in accordance with subsection (a). If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable to more than 1 reimbursing employer, or to 1 or more reimbursing employers and the nonchargeable benefits account, the benefits shall be charged as of the quarter in which the payments are made.
(4) Notice of charges made under this subsection shall be given to each employer by means of a current listing of charges, at least weekly, and subsequently by a quarterly summary statement of charges. The listing shall specify the name and social security number of each claimant paid benefits in the week, the weeks for which the benefits were paid, and the amount of benefits chargeable to that employer paid for each week. The quarterly summary statement of charges shall list each claimant by name and social security number and shall show total benefit payments chargeable to that employer and made to each claimant during the calendar quarter. The listing shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of sections 21(a) and 32(d) that notification be given to each employer of benefits charged against that employer's account by means of a listing of the benefit check. All protest and appeal rights applicable to benefit check listings shall also apply to the notice of charges. If an employer receives both a current listing of charges and a quarterly summary statement of charges under this subsection, all protest and appeal rights shall only apply to the first notice given.
(i) If a benefit year is established on or after October 1, 2000, the portion of benefits paid in that benefit year that are based on wages used to establish the immediately preceding benefit year that began before October 1, 2000 shall not be charged to the employer or employers who paid those wages but shall be charged instead to the nonchargeable benefits account.
(j) For benefits years beginning after March 30, 2009, benefits paid to a person who leaves employment to accompany a spouse who is a full-time member of the United States armed forces and is reassigned for military service in a different geographic location are not chargeable to the employer, but shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account.
421.20 Charging benefits against employer's account; benefits improperly paid; basis; separate determination of amount and duration of benefits; disqualifying act or discharge; order of charges; separating employee; limitation on charges for regular benefits; benefits based on multiemployer credit weeks; training benefits and extended benefits; notice of charges; spouse as full-time member of United States armed forces.
Sec. 20.
(a) Benefits paid shall be charged against the employer's account as of the quarter in which the payments are made. If the bureau determines that any benefits charged against an employer's account were improperly paid, an amount equal to the charge based on those benefits shall be credited to the employer's account and a corresponding charge shall be made to the nonchargeable benefits account as of the current period or, in the discretion of the bureau, as of the date of the charge. Benefits paid to an individual as a result of an employer's failure to provide the unemployment agency with separation, employment, and wage data as required by section 32 shall be considered as benefits properly paid to the extent that the benefits are chargeable to the noncomplying employer.
(b) For benefit years established before October 1, 2000, benefits paid to an individual shall be based upon the credit weeks earned during the individual's base period and shall be charged against the experience accounts of the contributing employers or charged to the accounts of the reimbursing employers from whom the individual earned credit weeks. If the individual earned credit weeks from more than 1 employer, a separate determination shall be made of the amount and duration of benefits based upon the total credit weeks and wages earned with each employer. Benefits paid in accordance with the determinations shall be charged against the experience account of a contributing employer or charged to the account of a reimbursing employer beginning with the most recent employer first and thereafter as necessary against other base period employers in inverse order to that in which the claimant earned his or her last credit week with those employers. If there is any disqualifying act or discharge under section 29(1) with an employer, benefits based upon credit weeks earned from that employer before the disqualifying act or discharge shall be charged only after the exhaustion of charges as provided above. Benefits based upon those credit weeks shall be charged first against the experience account of the contributing employer involved or to the account of the reimbursing employer involved in the most recent disqualifying act or discharge and thereafter as necessary in similar inverse order against other base period employers involved in disqualifying acts or discharges. The order of charges determined as of the beginning date of a benefit year shall remain fixed during the benefit year. For benefit years established on or after October 1, 2000, the claimant's full weekly benefit rate shall be charged to the account or experience account of the claimant's most recent separating employer for each of the first 2 weeks of benefits payable to the claimant in the benefit year in accordance with the monetary determination issued pursuant to section 32. However, if the total sum of wages paid by an employer totals $200.00 or less, those wages shall be used for purposes of benefit payment, but any benefit charges attributable to those wages shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account. Thereafter, remaining weeks of benefits payable in the benefit year shall be paid in accordance with the monetary determination and shall be charged proportionally to all base period employers, with the charge to each base period employer being made on the basis of the ratio that total wages paid by the employer in the base period bears to total wages paid by all employers in the base period. However, if the claimant did not perform services for the most recent separating employer or employing entity and receive earnings for performing the services of at least the amount a claimant must earn, in the manner prescribed in section 29(3), to requalify for benefits following a disqualification under section 29(1)(a), (b), (i), or (k) during the claimant's most recent period of employment with the employer or employing entity, then all weeks of benefits payable in the benefit year shall be charged proportionally to all base period employers, with the charge to each base period employer being made on the basis of the ratio that total wages paid by the employer in the base period bears to total wages paid by all employers in the base period. If the claimant performed services for the most recent separating employing entity and received earnings for performing the services of at least the amount a claimant must earn, in the manner prescribed in section 29(3), to requalify for benefits following a disqualification under section 29(1)(a), (b), (i), or (k) during the claimant's most recent period of employment for the employing entity but the separating employing entity was not a liable employer, the first 2 weeks of benefits payable to the claimant shall be charged proportionally to all base period employers, with the charge to each base period employer made on the basis of the ratio that total wages paid by the employer in the base period bears to total wages paid by all employers in the base period. The "separating employer" is the employer that caused the individual to be unemployed as defined in section 48.
(c) For benefit years established before October 1, 2000, and except as otherwise provided in section 11(d) or (g) or section 46a, the charges for regular benefits to any reimbursing employer or to any contributing employer's experience account shall not exceed the weekly benefit rate multiplied by 3/4 the number of credit weeks earned by the individual during his or her base period from that employer. If the resultant product is not an even multiple of 1/2 the weekly benefit rate, the amount shall be raised to an amount equal to the next higher multiple of 1/2 the weekly benefit rate, and in the case of an individual who was employed by only 1 employer in his or her base period and who earned 34 credit weeks with that employer, the product shall be raised to the next higher multiple of the weekly benefit rate.
(d) For benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000, and except as otherwise provided in section 11(d) or (g) or section 46, the charges for regular benefits to any reimbursing employer's account or to any contributing employer's experience account shall not exceed either the amount derived by multiplying by 2 the weekly benefit rate chargeable to the employer in accordance with subsection (b) if the employer is the separating employer and is chargeable for the first 2 weeks of benefits, or the amount derived from the percentage of the weekly benefit rate chargeable to the employer in accordance with subsection (b), multiplied by the number of weeks of benefits chargeable to base period employers based on base period wages, to which the individual is entitled as provided in section 27(d), if the employer is a base period employer, or both of these amounts if the employer was both the chargeable separating employer and a base period employer.
(e) For benefit years beginning before October 1, 2000:
(1) If an individual has multiemployer credit weeks in his or her base period, and if it becomes necessary to use those credit weeks as a basis for benefit payments, a single determination shall be made of the individual's weekly benefit rate and maximum amount of benefits based on the individual's multiemployer credit weeks and the wages earned in those credit weeks. Each employer involved in the individual's multiemployer credit weeks shall be an interested party to the determination. The proviso in section 29(2) does not apply to multiemployer credit weeks, nor does the reduction provision of section 29(4) apply to benefit entitlement based upon those credit weeks.
(2) The charge for benefits based on multiemployer credit weeks shall be allocated to each employer involved on the basis of the ratio that the total wages earned during the total multiemployer credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with the employer bears to the total amount of wages earned during the total multiemployer credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with all such employers, computed to the nearest cent. However, if an adjusted weekly benefit rate is determined in accordance with section 27(f), the charge to the employer who has contributed to the financing of the retirement plan shall be reduced by the same amount by which the weekly benefit rate was adjusted under section 27(f). Benefits for a week of unemployment allocated under this subsection to a contributing employer shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account if the claimant during that week earns remuneration with that employer that equals or exceeds the amount of benefits allocated to that employer.
(3) Benefits paid in accordance with the determination based on multiemployer credit weeks shall be allocated to each employer involved and charged as of the quarter in which the payments are made. Notice of charges made under this subsection shall be given to each employer by means of a current listing of charges, at least weekly, or of a quarterly statement of charges. The listing or statement shall specify the weeks for which benefits were paid based on multiemployer credit weeks and the amount of benefits paid chargeable to that employer for each week. The notice shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of sections 21(a) and 32(d) that notification be given each employer of benefits charged against that employer's account by means of a copy or listing of the benefit check, and all protest and appeal rights applicable to benefit check copies or listings shall also apply to the notice of charges. If an employer receives both a current listing of charges and a quarterly statement of charges under this subsection, all protest and appeal rights shall only apply to the first notice given.
(f) For benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000, if benefits for a week of unemployment are charged to 2 or more base period employers, the share of the benefits allocated and charged under this section to a contributing employer shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account if the claimant during that week earns remuneration with that employer that equals or exceeds the amount of benefits charged to that employer.
(g) For benefit years beginning before October 1, 2000:
(1) Training benefits as provided in section 27(g), and extended benefits as provided in section 64, shall be allocated to each reimbursing employer involved in the individual's base period of the claim to which the benefits are related, on the basis of the ratio that the total wages earned during the total credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with a reimbursing employer bears to the total amount of wages earned during the total credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with all employers.
(2) Training benefits and extended benefits, to the extent that they are not reimbursable by the federal government and have been allocated to a reimbursing employer, shall be charged to that reimbursing employer. A contributing employer's experience account shall not be charged with training benefits. Training benefits based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent that they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account. Extended benefits paid and based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent that they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to that employer's experience account.
(3) If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable only to a single reimbursing employer, the benefits shall be charged in accordance with subsection (a). If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable to more than 1 reimbursing employer, or to 1 or more reimbursing employers and the nonchargeable benefits account, the benefits shall be charged as of the quarter in which the payments are made.
(4) Notice of charges made under this subsection shall be given to each employer by means of a current listing of charges, at least weekly, and subsequently by a quarterly summary statement of charges. The listing shall specify the name and social security number of each claimant paid benefits during the week, the weeks for which the benefits were paid, and the amount of benefits chargeable to that employer paid for each week. The quarterly statement of charges shall list each claimant by name and social security number and shall show total benefit payments chargeable to that employer and made to each claimant during the calendar quarter. The listing shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of sections 21(a) and 32(d) that notification be given each employer of benefits charged against that employer's account by means of a listing of the benefit check. All protest and appeal rights applicable to benefit check listings shall also apply to the notice of charges. If an employer receives both a current listing of charges and a quarterly statement of charges under this subsection, all protest and appeal rights shall only apply to the first notice given.
(h) For benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000:
(1) Training benefits as provided in section 27(g), and extended benefits as provided in section 64, shall be charged to each reimbursing employer in the base period of the claim to which the benefits are related, on the basis of the ratio that the total wages paid by a reimbursing employer during the base period bears to the total wages paid by all reimbursing employers in the base period.
(2) Training benefits, and extended benefits to the extent they are not reimbursable by the federal government and have been allocated to a reimbursing employer, shall be charged to that reimbursing employer. A contributing employer's experience account shall not be charged with training benefits. Training benefits based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account. Extended benefits paid and based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to that employer's experience account.
(3) If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable only to a single reimbursing employer, the benefits shall be charged in accordance with subsection (a). If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable to more than 1 reimbursing employer, or to 1 or more reimbursing employers and the nonchargeable benefits account, the benefits shall be charged as of the quarter in which the payments are made.
(4) Notice of charges made under this subsection shall be given to each employer by means of a current listing of charges, at least weekly, and subsequently by a quarterly summary statement of charges. The listing shall specify the name and social security number of each claimant paid benefits in the week, the weeks for which the benefits were paid, and the amount of benefits chargeable to that employer paid for each week. The quarterly summary statement of charges shall list each claimant by name and social security number and shall show total benefit payments chargeable to that employer and made to each claimant during the calendar quarter. The listing shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of sections 21(a) and 32(d) that notification be given to each employer of benefits charged against that employer's account by means of a listing of the benefit check. All protest and appeal rights applicable to benefit check listings shall also apply to the notice of charges. If an employer receives both a current listing of charges and a quarterly summary statement of charges under this subsection, all protest and appeal rights shall only apply to the first notice given.
(i) If a benefit year is established on or after October 1, 2000, the portion of benefits paid in that benefit year that are based on wages used to establish the immediately preceding benefit year that began before October 1, 2000 shall not be charged to the employer or employers who paid those wages but shall be charged instead to the nonchargeable benefits account.
(j) For benefits years beginning after March 30, 2009, benefits paid to a person who leaves employment to accompany a spouse who is a full-time member of the United States armed forces and is reassigned for military service in a different geographic location are not chargeable to the employer, but shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account.
421.20 Charging benefits against employer's account; benefits improperly paid; basis; separate determination of amount and duration of benefits; disqualifying act or discharge; order of charges; separating employee; limitation on charges for regular benefits; benefits based on multiemployer credit weeks; training benefits and extended benefits; notice of charges; spouse as full-time member of United States armed forces.
Sec. 20.
(a) Benefits paid shall be charged against the employer's account as of the quarter in which the payments are made. If the bureau determines that any benefits charged against an employer's account were improperly paid, an amount equal to the charge based on those benefits shall be credited to the employer's account and a corresponding charge shall be made to the nonchargeable benefits account as of the current period or, in the discretion of the bureau, as of the date of the charge. Benefits paid to an individual as a result of an employer's failure to provide the unemployment agency with separation, employment, and wage data as required by section 32 shall be considered as benefits properly paid to the extent that the benefits are chargeable to the noncomplying employer.
(b) For benefit years established before October 1, 2000, benefits paid to an individual shall be based upon the credit weeks earned during the individual's base period and shall be charged against the experience accounts of the contributing employers or charged to the accounts of the reimbursing employers from whom the individual earned credit weeks. If the individual earned credit weeks from more than 1 employer, a separate determination shall be made of the amount and duration of benefits based upon the total credit weeks and wages earned with each employer. Benefits paid in accordance with the determinations shall be charged against the experience account of a contributing employer or charged to the account of a reimbursing employer beginning with the most recent employer first and thereafter as necessary against other base period employers in inverse order to that in which the claimant earned his or her last credit week with those employers. If there is any disqualifying act or discharge under section 29(1) with an employer, benefits based upon credit weeks earned from that employer before the disqualifying act or discharge shall be charged only after the exhaustion of charges as provided above. Benefits based upon those credit weeks shall be charged first against the experience account of the contributing employer involved or to the account of the reimbursing employer involved in the most recent disqualifying act or discharge and thereafter as necessary in similar inverse order against other base period employers involved in disqualifying acts or discharges. The order of charges determined as of the beginning date of a benefit year shall remain fixed during the benefit year. For benefit years established on or after October 1, 2000, the claimant's full weekly benefit rate shall be charged to the account or experience account of the claimant's most recent separating employer for each of the first 2 weeks of benefits payable to the claimant in the benefit year in accordance with the monetary determination issued pursuant to section 32. However, if the total sum of wages paid by an employer totals $200.00 or less, those wages shall be used for purposes of benefit payment, but any benefit charges attributable to those wages shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account. Thereafter, remaining weeks of benefits payable in the benefit year shall be paid in accordance with the monetary determination and shall be charged proportionally to all base period employers, with the charge to each base period employer being made on the basis of the ratio that total wages paid by the employer in the base period bears to total wages paid by all employers in the base period. However, if the claimant did not perform services for the most recent separating employer or employing entity and receive earnings for performing the services of at least the amount a claimant must earn, in the manner prescribed in section 29(3), to requalify for benefits following a disqualification under section 29(1)(a), (b), (i), or (k) during the claimant's most recent period of employment with the employer or employing entity, then all weeks of benefits payable in the benefit year shall be charged proportionally to all base period employers, with the charge to each base period employer being made on the basis of the ratio that total wages paid by the employer in the base period bears to total wages paid by all employers in the base period. If the claimant performed services for the most recent separating employing entity and received earnings for performing the services of at least the amount a claimant must earn, in the manner prescribed in section 29(3), to requalify for benefits following a disqualification under section 29(1)(a), (b), (i), or (k) during the claimant's most recent period of employment for the employing entity but the separating employing entity was not a liable employer, the first 2 weeks of benefits payable to the claimant shall be charged proportionally to all base period employers, with the charge to each base period employer made on the basis of the ratio that total wages paid by the employer in the base period bears to total wages paid by all employers in the base period. The "separating employer" is the employer that caused the individual to be unemployed as defined in section 48.
(c) For benefit years established before October 1, 2000, and except as otherwise provided in section 11(d) or (g) or section 46a, the charges for regular benefits to any reimbursing employer or to any contributing employer's experience account shall not exceed the weekly benefit rate multiplied by 3/4 the number of credit weeks earned by the individual during his or her base period from that employer. If the resultant product is not an even multiple of 1/2 the weekly benefit rate, the amount shall be raised to an amount equal to the next higher multiple of 1/2 the weekly benefit rate, and in the case of an individual who was employed by only 1 employer in his or her base period and who earned 34 credit weeks with that employer, the product shall be raised to the next higher multiple of the weekly benefit rate.
(d) For benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000, and except as otherwise provided in section 11(d) or (g) or section 46, the charges for regular benefits to any reimbursing employer's account or to any contributing employer's experience account shall not exceed either the amount derived by multiplying by 2 the weekly benefit rate chargeable to the employer in accordance with subsection (b) if the employer is the separating employer and is chargeable for the first 2 weeks of benefits, or the amount derived from the percentage of the weekly benefit rate chargeable to the employer in accordance with subsection (b), multiplied by the number of weeks of benefits chargeable to base period employers based on base period wages, to which the individual is entitled as provided in section 27(d), if the employer is a base period employer, or both of these amounts if the employer was both the chargeable separating employer and a base period employer.
(e) For benefit years beginning before October 1, 2000:
(1) If an individual has multiemployer credit weeks in his or her base period, and if it becomes necessary to use those credit weeks as a basis for benefit payments, a single determination shall be made of the individual's weekly benefit rate and maximum amount of benefits based on the individual's multiemployer credit weeks and the wages earned in those credit weeks. Each employer involved in the individual's multiemployer credit weeks shall be an interested party to the determination. The proviso in section 29(2) does not apply to multiemployer credit weeks, nor does the reduction provision of section 29(4) apply to benefit entitlement based upon those credit weeks.
(2) The charge for benefits based on multiemployer credit weeks shall be allocated to each employer involved on the basis of the ratio that the total wages earned during the total multiemployer credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with the employer bears to the total amount of wages earned during the total multiemployer credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with all such employers, computed to the nearest cent. However, if an adjusted weekly benefit rate is determined in accordance with section 27(f), the charge to the employer who has contributed to the financing of the retirement plan shall be reduced by the same amount by which the weekly benefit rate was adjusted under section 27(f). Benefits for a week of unemployment allocated under this subsection to a contributing employer shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account if the claimant during that week earns remuneration with that employer that equals or exceeds the amount of benefits allocated to that employer.
(3) Benefits paid in accordance with the determination based on multiemployer credit weeks shall be allocated to each employer involved and charged as of the quarter in which the payments are made. Notice of charges made under this subsection shall be given to each employer by means of a current listing of charges, at least weekly, or of a quarterly statement of charges. The listing or statement shall specify the weeks for which benefits were paid based on multiemployer credit weeks and the amount of benefits paid chargeable to that employer for each week. The notice shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of sections 21(a) and 32(d) that notification be given each employer of benefits charged against that employer's account by means of a copy or listing of the benefit check, and all protest and appeal rights applicable to benefit check copies or listings shall also apply to the notice of charges. If an employer receives both a current listing of charges and a quarterly statement of charges under this subsection, all protest and appeal rights shall only apply to the first notice given.
(f) For benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000, if benefits for a week of unemployment are charged to 2 or more base period employers, the share of the benefits allocated and charged under this section to a contributing employer shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account if the claimant during that week earns remuneration with that employer that equals or exceeds the amount of benefits charged to that employer.
(g) For benefit years beginning before October 1, 2000:
(1) Training benefits as provided in section 27(g), and extended benefits as provided in section 64, shall be allocated to each reimbursing employer involved in the individual's base period of the claim to which the benefits are related, on the basis of the ratio that the total wages earned during the total credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with a reimbursing employer bears to the total amount of wages earned during the total credit weeks counted under section 50(b) with all employers.
(2) Training benefits and extended benefits, to the extent that they are not reimbursable by the federal government and have been allocated to a reimbursing employer, shall be charged to that reimbursing employer. A contributing employer's experience account shall not be charged with training benefits. Training benefits based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent that they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account. Extended benefits paid and based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent that they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to that employer's experience account.
(3) If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable only to a single reimbursing employer, the benefits shall be charged in accordance with subsection (a). If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable to more than 1 reimbursing employer, or to 1 or more reimbursing employers and the nonchargeable benefits account, the benefits shall be charged as of the quarter in which the payments are made.
(4) Notice of charges made under this subsection shall be given to each employer by means of a current listing of charges, at least weekly, and subsequently by a quarterly summary statement of charges. The listing shall specify the name and social security number of each claimant paid benefits during the week, the weeks for which the benefits were paid, and the amount of benefits chargeable to that employer paid for each week. The quarterly statement of charges shall list each claimant by name and social security number and shall show total benefit payments chargeable to that employer and made to each claimant during the calendar quarter. The listing shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of sections 21(a) and 32(d) that notification be given each employer of benefits charged against that employer's account by means of a listing of the benefit check. All protest and appeal rights applicable to benefit check listings shall also apply to the notice of charges. If an employer receives both a current listing of charges and a quarterly statement of charges under this subsection, all protest and appeal rights shall only apply to the first notice given.
(h) For benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000:
(1) Training benefits as provided in section 27(g), and extended benefits as provided in section 64, shall be charged to each reimbursing employer in the base period of the claim to which the benefits are related, on the basis of the ratio that the total wages paid by a reimbursing employer during the base period bears to the total wages paid by all reimbursing employers in the base period.
(2) Training benefits, and extended benefits to the extent they are not reimbursable by the federal government and have been allocated to a reimbursing employer, shall be charged to that reimbursing employer. A contributing employer's experience account shall not be charged with training benefits. Training benefits based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account. Extended benefits paid and based on service with a contributing employer, to the extent they are not reimbursable by the federal government, shall be charged to that employer's experience account.
(3) If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable only to a single reimbursing employer, the benefits shall be charged in accordance with subsection (a). If the training benefits or extended benefits are chargeable to more than 1 reimbursing employer, or to 1 or more reimbursing employers and the nonchargeable benefits account, the benefits shall be charged as of the quarter in which the payments are made.
(4) Notice of charges made under this subsection shall be given to each employer by means of a current listing of charges, at least weekly, and subsequently by a quarterly summary statement of charges. The listing shall specify the name and social security number of each claimant paid benefits in the week, the weeks for which the benefits were paid, and the amount of benefits chargeable to that employer paid for each week. The quarterly summary statement of charges shall list each claimant by name and social security number and shall show total benefit payments chargeable to that employer and made to each claimant during the calendar quarter. The listing shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of sections 21(a) and 32(d) that notification be given to each employer of benefits charged against that employer's account by means of a listing of the benefit check. All protest and appeal rights applicable to benefit check listings shall also apply to the notice of charges. If an employer receives both a current listing of charges and a quarterly summary statement of charges under this subsection, all protest and appeal rights shall only apply to the first notice given.
(i) If a benefit year is established on or after October 1, 2000, the portion of benefits paid in that benefit year that are based on wages used to establish the immediately preceding benefit year that began before October 1, 2000 shall not be charged to the employer or employers who paid those wages but shall be charged instead to the nonchargeable benefits account.
(j) For benefits years beginning after March 30, 2009, benefits paid to a person who leaves employment to accompany a spouse who is a full-time member of the United States armed forces and is reassigned for military service in a different geographic location are not chargeable to the employer, but shall be charged to the nonchargeable benefits account.
