Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-5 – Maximum benefits payable
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-5
- Additional unemployment benefits: means the unemployment compensation benefits payable under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
- Claimant: means an individual:
(1) Who has an unexpired benefit year and has exhausted normal benefits;
(2) Whose benefit year expired, or whose normal benefits were exhausted, within a period of twenty-six consecutive weeks immediately preceding the week in which the proclamation provided for in section 385-1 became effective;
(3) Who was employed during the week in which the governor's proclamation pursuant to section 385-1 became effective, but who became unemployed and whose total earned wages are insufficient for normal benefits; or
(4) Whose unemployment was proximately caused by the disaster identified by the governor in the proclamation provided for in section 385-1 and was self-employed during the week in which the disaster occurred. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
- Week: means any period of seven consecutive days as the director may by rule prescribe. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
A claimant‘s maximum potential additional unemployment benefits shall be thirteen times the claimant’s weekly benefit amount, and shall be determined in the week in which the claimant first claims for additional unemployment benefits and shall remain unchanged for the period specified in section 385-16.