An unemployed claimant is eligible to receive additional unemployment benefits with respect to any week only if the director of labor and industrial relations finds that:

(1) The claimant has made a claim for additional unemployment benefits with respect to that week in accordance with the rules as the director may prescribe with respect to claims for normal benefits;

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-6

  • 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

  • Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
  • Normal benefits: means the unemployment compensation benefits payable pursuant to chapter 383. 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
(2) The claimant meets the eligibility requirements of section 383-29(a)(2) and (3);
(3) The claimant is not subject to disqualification and is not under disqualification for normal benefits under § 383-30;
(4) The claimant is not entitled to receive unemployment compensation benefits under any state or federal unemployment compensation laws for the week in which the claimant claims for additional unemployment benefits;
(5) The claimant is not entitled to receive disaster benefits under any state or federal law for the week in which the claimant claims additional unemployment benefits.