Title 27 Labor and Employment

27-3-301. Definitions.

(a) As used in this article: (i) "Additional benefits" means benefits payable under state law to exhaustees due to high unemployment conditions or other special factors and totally financed by any state; (ii) "Applicable benefit year" means an individual's most recent benefit year or an individual's current benefit year if at the time of filing a claim for extended benefits his benefit year is unexpired only in the state in which filing; (iii) "Eligibility period" means those weeks in an individual's benefit year beginning in an extended benefit period and if his benefit year ends within the extended benefit period, any weeks beginning in this period; (iv) "Extended benefits" means benefits payable to an individual under this article for weeks of unemployment in his eligibility period including benefits payable to federal employees and veterans under 5 U.S.C. § 8501 et seq.; (v) "Most recent benefit year" means the benefit year with the latest ending date for individuals filing a claim for extended benefits with unexpired benefit years in more than one (1) state or, if the benefit years have the same ending date, the benefit year in which the latest continued claim for regular benefits was filed; (vi) "Regular benefits" means benefits, excluding extended and additional benefits, payable to an individual under this act or any other state law including dependent's allowances and benefits payable to federal employees or veterans under 5 U.S.C. § 8501 et seq.; (vii) "State law" means the unemployment insurance law of any state approved by the United States secretary of labor under 26 U.S.C. § 3304.