39-51-2107. Services for remuneration to be performed during benefit year as condition for receiving benefits in second benefit year — amount required. An individual who received benefits during a benefit year shall perform services for remuneration following the initial separation from employment in the previous benefit year as a condition for receiving benefits in a second benefit year. The service must constitute employment as defined in 39-51-203 and 39-51-204. However, the individual must have earned the lesser of three-thirteenths of the individual’s high quarter of the individual’s second benefit year or six times the individual’s weekly benefit amount of that same year.

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Terms Used In Montana Code 39-51-2107

  • Benefit year: means the 52-consecutive-week period beginning with the first day of the calendar week in which an individual files a valid claim for benefits, except that the benefit year is 53 weeks if filing a new valid claim would result in overlapping any quarter of the base period of a previously filed new claim. See Montana Code 39-51-201
  • Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter, with respect to the individual's unemployment. See Montana Code 39-51-201
  • Weekly benefit amount: means the amount of benefits that an individual would be entitled to receive for 1 week of total unemployment. See Montana Code 39-51-201