(a) For weeks of unemployment during benefit years which begin before the effective date of subsection (b), an individual’s weekly benefit amount shall be as prescribed by this section as amended through July 6, 1997.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 25-4-72

  • Base period: as used in this chapter , means the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual benefit year. See Alabama Code 25-4-1
  • Benefit year: as used in this chapter with respect to any individual, means the one-year period beginning with the first day of the first week with respect to which an individual who is unemployed first files a valid claim for benefits or a claim is filed by an employer on behalf of an employee working less than full time, and thereafter the one-year period beginning with the first day of the first week with respect to which such individual next files a valid claim for benefits or such claim is filed by an employer on behalf of an employee working less than full time, after the termination of his last preceding benefit year. See Alabama Code 25-4-3
  • employment: shall include service constituting employment under any unemployment compensation law of another state or of this state. See Alabama Code 25-4-16
  • Fund: as used in this chapter , means the Unemployment Compensation Fund established by this chapter, to which all contributions and payments in lieu of contributions and from which all benefits required under this chapter shall be paid. See Alabama Code 25-4-12
  • Insured work: as used in this chapter , means "employment" for "employers. See Alabama Code 25-4-13
  • State: as used in this chapter , includes, in addition to the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Canada. See Alabama Code 25-4-14
  • wages: as used in this chapter , shall mean such remuneration as was defined in this section prior to such date. See Alabama Code 25-4-16
  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) For weeks of unemployment during benefit years beginning on or after July 2, 2006, an individual’s weekly benefit amount shall be an amount equal to one twenty-sixth of the average of the wages for insured work paid to the individual during the two quarters of his or her base period in which the total wages were the highest; except, that:

(1) If the amount thus derived is not a multiple of one dollar ($1), fractional parts of one dollar ($1) in excess of fifty cents ($.50) shall be rounded to the next higher multiple of one dollar ($1) and fractional parts of one dollar ($1) which are fifty cents ($.50) or less shall be dropped to the next lower multiple of one dollar ($1).
(2) If the amount derived before the application of subdivision (1) is not in excess of forty-four dollars fifty cents ($44.50), there shall be no weekly benefit amount.
(3) Effective with benefit years beginning on or after July 6, 2008, if the amount thus derived is more than two hundred fifty-four dollars fifty cents ($254.50), the weekly maximum benefit amount shall be two hundred fifty-five dollars ($255).
(4) Effective with benefit years beginning on or after July 5, 2009, if the amount thus derived is more than two hundred sixty-four dollars fifty cents ($264.50), the weekly maximum benefit shall be two hundred sixty-five dollars ($265).
(5) Effective with benefit years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, if the amount thus derived is more than two hundred seventy-four dollars fifty cents ($274.50), the weekly maximum benefit shall be two hundred seventy-five dollars ($275).
(c) If, as a condition for approval of this section for full tax credit against the tax imposed by the federal Unemployment Tax Act, federal law should require a greater maximum weekly benefit amount than that provided herein, then the maximum weekly benefit amount shall be the minimum required by any such federal law for such approval.
(d) Nothing herein shall serve to deprive any individual of any benefit for which he or she had qualified in any benefit year beginning before the effective date of subsection (b).
(e) There is hereby appropriated out of funds made available to this state under Section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended by Title II, Section 209, “Special Reed Act Transfer in Fiscal Year 2002,” of the “Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002,” as contained in the “Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002,” an amount not to exceed 15 percent of the funds, or so much thereof to be used as may be necessary, under the direction of the State of Alabama, Department of Labor, for the expenses incurred for the administration of this state’s unemployment compensation law and public employment offices. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the additional amount of up to $7,940,119 of “Reed Act” funds may be withdrawn from the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund and used for administrative purposes from May 29, 2008, until September 30, 2009. Furthermore, whatever amount is withdrawn during this time period, that amount shall not change the Employer Tax Schedules pursuant to Section 25-4-54 for the calendar year beginning January 1, 2010.
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