An otherwise eligible worker under this chapter shall be ineligible for benefits for any week in a benefit year unless, subsequent to the beginning of the worker’s immediately preceding benefit year, he or she returned to work and earned wages in covered employment equal to at least five (5) times his or her weekly benefit rate established for the previous benefit year.
Effective: June 8, 2011

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 341.355

  • Benefits: means the money payments payable to a worker under this chapter and under any previous unemployment compensation law of this state with respect to his unemployment. See Kentucky Statutes 341.020
  • covered employment: shall include service constituting covered employment under any unemployment compensation law of another state. See Kentucky Statutes 341.030
  • wages: includes tips which are: (a) Received while performing services which constitute employment. See Kentucky Statutes 341.030
  • Week: means such period of seven (7) consecutive calendar days as the cabinet prescribes in administrative regulation. See Kentucky Statutes 341.080
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

History: Created 2011 Ky. Acts ch. 30, sec. 1, effective June 8, 2011.