Sec. 4. (a) Benefits shall be computed upon the basis of wage credits of an individual in the individual's base period. Wage credits shall be reported by the employer and credited to the individual in the manner prescribed by the department. With respect to initial claims filed for any week beginning on and after July 7, 1991, the maximum total amount of benefits payable to any eligible individual during any benefit period shall not exceed twenty-six (26) times the individual's weekly benefit, or twenty-eight percent (28%) of the individual's wage credits with respect to the individual's base period, whichever is less. If such maximum total amount of benefits is not a multiple of one dollar ($1), it shall be computed to the next lower multiple of one dollar ($1).

(b) Except as provided in subsection (d), the total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible individual with respect to the individual's applicable benefit period shall be fifty percent (50%) of the total amount of regular benefits (including dependents' allowances) which were payable to the individual under this article in the applicable benefit year, or thirteen (13) times the weekly benefit amount (including dependents' allowances) which was payable to the individual under this article for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year, whichever is the lesser amount.

(c) This subsection applies to individuals who file a disaster unemployment claim or a state unemployment insurance claim after June 1, 1990, and before June 2, 1991, or during another time specified in another state statute. An individual is entitled to thirteen (13) weeks of additional benefits, as originally determined, if:

(1) the individual has established:

(A) a disaster unemployment claim under the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; or

(B) a state unemployment insurance claim as a direct result of a major disaster;

(2) all regular benefits and all disaster unemployment assistance benefits:

(A) have been exhausted by the individual; or

(B) are no longer payable to the individual due to the expiration of the disaster assistance period; and

(3) the individual remains unemployed as a direct result of the disaster.

(d) For purposes of this subsection, "high unemployment period" means a period during which an extended benefit period would be in effect if IC 22-4-2-34(d)(1) were applied by substituting "eight percent (8%)" for "six and five-tenths percent (6.5%)". Effective with respect to weeks beginning in a high unemployment period, the total extended benefit amount payable to an eligible individual with respect to the applicable benefit year is equal to the least of the following amounts:

(1) Eighty percent (80%) of the total amount of regular benefits that were payable to the eligible individual under this article in the applicable benefit year.

(2) Twenty (20) times the weekly benefit amount that was payable to the eligible individual under this article for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year.

(3) Forty-six (46) times the weekly benefit amount that was payable to the eligible individual under this article for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year, reduced by the regular unemployment compensation benefits paid (or deemed paid) during the benefit year.

This subsection expires on the later of December 5, 2009, or the week ending four (4) weeks before the last week for which federal sharing is authorized by Section 2005(a) of Division B, Title II (the federal Assistance to Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act) of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5).

(e) For purposes of this subsection, "high unemployment period" means a period during which an extended benefit period would be in effect if IC 22-4-2-34(n)(1) were applied by substituting "eight percent (8%)" for "six and one-half percent (6.5%)". Effective with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning after March 1, 2011, and ending on the later of December 10, 2011, or the week ending four (4) weeks before the last week for which federal sharing is authorized by Section 2005(a) of Division B, Title II (the federal Assistance to Unemployed and Struggling Families Act) of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5), in a high unemployment period, the total extended benefit amount payable to an eligible individual with respect to the applicable benefit year is equal to the lesser of the following amounts:

(1) Eighty percent (80%) of the total amount of regular benefits that were payable to the eligible individual under this article in the applicable benefit year.

(2) Twenty (20) times the weekly benefit amount that was payable to the eligible individual under this article for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year.

Formerly: Acts 1947, c.208, s.1204; Acts 1959, c.97, s.3; Acts 1967, c.310, s.17; Acts 1971, P.L.355, SEC.27. As amended by P.L.171-1991, SEC.4; P.L.172-1991, SEC.2; P.L.1-1992, SEC.110; P.L.175-2009, SEC.17; P.L.12-2011, SEC.3; P.L.171-2016, SEC.8.