No individual is entitled to benefits unless the individual’s base period wages paid in other than the individual’s highest quarter equal or exceed twenty times the individual’s weekly benefit amount, and unless the wages paid for insured work in the individual’s quarter of highest earnings in the individual’s base period equal or exceed seven hundred twenty-eight dollars.

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Source: SDC 1939, § 17.0828 (2) (c) as added by SL 1939, ch 86, § 5; SDC 1939, § 17.0828 (2) (b) as enacted by SL 1941, ch 83, § 7; SL 1943, ch 82, § 1; SL 1947, ch 90, § 1; SL 1951, ch 97, § 1; SL 1953, ch 76, § 5; SL 1957, ch 88, § 2; SL 1964, ch 69; SL 1965, ch 100; SL 1972, ch 269, § 4; SL 1973, ch 308, § 3; SL 1979, ch 348, § 6; SL 1981, ch 371, § 2; SL 1985, ch 396, § 3; SL 1992, ch 362; SL 2008, ch 277, § 117; SDCL § 61-6-7; SL 2012, ch 252, § 59.