HF 1745

as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to unemployment insurance; eliminating the
one-week waiting period from the eligibility
requirements for benefits; amending Minnesota Statutes
2004, section 268.085, subdivision 1.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 268.085,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Eligibility conditions.

An applicant
shall be eligible to receive unemployment benefits for any week
if:

(1) the applicant has an active benefit account and has
filed a continued biweekly request for unemployment benefits for
that week pursuant to section 268.086;

(2) the applicant was able to work and was available for
suitable employment, and was actively seeking suitable
employment. The applicant's weekly unemployment benefit amount
shall be reduced one-fifth for each day the applicant is unable
to work or is unavailable for suitable employment. If the
computation of the reduced unemployment benefits is not a whole
dollar, it shall be rounded down to the next lower whole dollar.

This clause shall not apply to an applicant who is in
reemployment assistance training, or each day the applicant is
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(3) deleted text begin the applicant has served a waiting period of one week
that the applicant is otherwise entitled to some amount of
unemployment benefits. This clause shall not apply if the
applicant would have been entitled to federal disaster
unemployment assistance because of a disaster in Minnesota, but
for the applicant's establishment of a benefit account under
section 268.07; and
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deleted text begin (4) deleted text end the applicant has been participating in reemployment
assistance services, such as job search and resume writing
classes, if the applicant has been determined in need of
reemployment assistance services by the commissioner, unless
there is good cause for the applicant's failure to participate.