Indiana Code 22-4-14-5. Wage credits
(1) the individual must have established, after the last day of the individual’s last base period, if any, wage credits (as defined in IC 22-4-4-3 and within the meaning of IC 22-4-22-3) equal to at least one and one-quarter (1.25) times the wages paid to the individual in the calendar quarter in which the individual’s wages were highest; and
Terms Used In Indiana Code 22-4-14-5
- benefits: means the money payments payable to an eligible individual as provided in this article with respect to his unemployment. See Indiana Code 22-4-2-1
- employment: includes service performed by a driver who provides drive away operations when the services are being performed by an individual who is in the employ of a state or local government entity or federally recognized Indian tribe as defined in Section 3306(c)(7) of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (Indiana Code 22-4-8-3.6
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- Remuneration: whenever used in this article , unless the context clearly denotes otherwise, means all compensation for personal services, including but not limited to commissions, bonuses, dismissal pay, vacation pay, sick pay (subject to the provisions of section 2(c)(1) of this chapter) payments in lieu of compensation for services, and cash value of all compensation paid in any medium other than cash. See Indiana Code 22-4-4-1
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(b) As a further condition precedent to the payment of benefits to an individual with respect to a benefit year established on and after July 1, 1995, an insured worker may not receive benefits in a benefit year unless after the beginning of the immediately preceding benefit year during which the individual received benefits, the individual:
(1) performed insured work;
(2) earned remuneration in employment in at least each of eight (8) weeks; and
(3) earned remuneration equal to or exceeding the product of the individual’s weekly benefit amount multiplied by eight (8).
(c) As further conditions precedent to the payment of benefits to an individual with respect to benefit periods established on and after January 1, 2010:
(1) the individual must have established, after the last day of the individual’s last base period, if any, wage credits (as defined in IC 22-4-4-3 and within the meaning of wages under IC 22-4-22-3) equal to at least one and five-tenths (1.5) times the wages paid to the individual in the calendar quarter in which the individual’s wages were highest; and
(2) the individual must have established wage credits in the last two (2) calendar quarters of the individual’s base period in a total amount of not less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) and a total amount in the four (4) calendar quarters of the individual’s base period of not less than four thousand two hundred dollars ($4,200).
Formerly: Acts 1947, c.208, s.1405; Acts 1965, c.190, s.8; Acts 1971, P.L.355, SEC.32; Acts 1974, P.L.110, SEC.3. As amended by Acts 1980, P.L.158, SEC.4; P.L.34-1985, SEC.6; P.L.171-1991, SEC.5; P.L.21-1995, SEC.80; P.L.166-1996, SEC.2; P.L.175-2009, SEC.21; P.L.183-2015, SEC.6.