[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR615.7]

[Page 81-82]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 615--EXTENDED BENEFITS IN THE FEDERAL-STATE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 615.7  Extended Benefits; maximum amount.

    (a) Individual account. An Extended Benefit Account shall be 
established for each individual determined to be eligible for Extended 
Benefits, in the sum of the maximum amount potentially payable to the 
individual as computed in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section.
    (b) Computation of amount in individual account. (1) The amount 
established in the Extended Benefit Account of an individual, as the 
maximum amount potentially payable to the individual during the 
individual's eligibility period, shall be equal to the lesser of--
    (i) 50 percent of the total amount of regular compensation 
(including dependents' allowances) payable to the individual during the 
individual's applicable benefit year; or
    (ii) 13 times the individual's weekly amount of Extended Benefits 
payable for a week of total unemployment, as determined pursuant to 
Sec. 615.6(a); or
    (iii) 39 times the individual's weekly benefit amount referred to in 
(ii), reduced by the regular compensation paid (or deemed paid) to the 
individual during the individual's applicable benefit year.
    (2) If the State law so provides, the amount in the individual's 
Extended Benefit Account shall be reduced by the aggregate amount of 
additional compensation paid (or deemed paid) to the individual under 
such law for prior weeks of unemployment in such benefit year which did 
not begin in an Extended Benefit Period.
    (c) Changes in accounts. (1) If an individual is entitled to more or 
less Extended Benefits as a result of a redetermination or an appeal 
which awarded more or less regular compensation or Extended Benefits, an 
appropriate change shall be made in the individual's Extended Benefit 
Account pursuant to an amended determination of the individual's 
entitlement to Extended Benefits.
    (2) If an individual who has received Extended Benefits for a week 
of unemployment is determined to be entitled to more regular 
compensation with respect to such week as the result of a 
redetermination or an appeal, the Extended Benefits paid shall be 
treated as if they were regular compensation up to the greater amount to 
which the individual has been determined to be entitled, and the State 
agency shall make appropriate adjustments between the regular and 
extended accounts. If the individual is entitled to more Extended 
Benefits as a result of being entitled to more regular compensation, an 
amended determination shall be made of the individual's entitlement to 
Extended Benefits. If the greater amount of regular compensation results 
in an increased duration of regular compensation, the individual's 
status as an exhaustee shall be redetermined as of the new date of 
exhaustion of regular compensation.
    (3) If an individual who has received Extended Benefits for a week 
of unemployment is determined to be entitled to less regular 
compensation as the result of a redetermination or an appeal, and as a 
consequence is entitled to less Extended Benefits, any Extended Benefits 
paid in excess of the amount to which the individual is determined to be 
entitled after the redetermination or decision on appeal shall be 
considered an overpayment which the individual shall have to repay on 
the same basis and in the same manner that excess payments of regular 
compensation are required to be repaid under the applicable State law. 
If such decision reduces the duration of regular compensation payable to 
the individual, the claim for Extended Benefits shall be backdated to 
the earliest date, subsequent to the date when the redetermined regular 
compensation was exhausted and within the individual's eligibility 
period, that the individual was eligible to file a claim for Extended 
Benefits. Any such changes shall be

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made pursuant to an amended determination of the individual's 
entitlement to Extended Benefits.
    (d) Reduction because of trade readjustment allowances. Section 
233(d) of the Trade Act of 1974 (and section 204(a)(2)(C) of the Act), 
requiring a reduction of Extended Benefits because of the receipt of 
trade readjustment allowances, shall be applied as follows:
    (1) The reduction of Extended Benefits shall apply only to an 
individual who has not exhausted his/her Extended Benefits at the end of 
the benefit year;
    (2) The amount to be deducted is the product of the weekly benefit 
amount for Extended Benefits multiplied by the number of weeks for which 
trade readjustment allowances were paid (regardless of the amount paid 
for any such week) up to the close of the last week that begins in the 
benefit year; and
    (3) The amount to be deducted shall be deducted from the balance of 
Extended Benefits not used as of the close of the last week which begins 
in the benefit year.