Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-6 – Requirements for eligibility
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:
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