(820 ILCS 405/1501) (from Ch. 48, par. 571)
Sec. 1501.
Benefit wages.
A. When an individual is paid regular
benefits (defined in Section 409) under this Act, with respect to any
benefit year which begins prior to November 4, 1979, which, when added
to such regular benefits previously paid him for the same benefit year,
equal or exceed three times his weekly benefit amount for the benefit
year, his wages during his base period shall immediately become benefit wages.
B. When an individual is paid regular benefits with respect to a
week in any benefit year which begins on or after November 4, 1979, an
amount equal to 1/26 of the wages for insured work, but not in excess of
1/26 of $6,000, paid to him by each employer during his base period
shall immediately become benefit wages provided, however, that no payment
of regular benefits made on or after July 1, 1989, shall become benefit
wages. Such amount, if not a multiple
of $1, shall be rounded to the next higher dollar.
C. When an individual is first paid extended benefits with respect
to his eligibility period (defined in Section 409), one-half of the
wages for insured work paid to him by each employer during his base
period applicable to the benefit year in which his eligibility period
began shall immediately become benefit wages, whether or not they had
previously become benefit wages. This subsection shall apply only to
eligibility periods beginning in benefit years which commence prior to
November 4, 1979.
D. When an individual is paid extended benefits with respect to any
week in an eligibility period beginning in a benefit year commencing on
or after November 4, 1979, an amount equal to 1/13 of one-half
of the wages for insured work, but not in excess of 1/13 of $3,000, paid to
him by each employer during his base period
applicable to the benefit year in which the eligibility period began,
shall immediately become benefit wages, whether or not any part of such
wages had previously become benefit wages provided, however, that no
payment of extended benefits made on or after July 1, 1989, shall become
benefit wages. Such amount, if not a
multiple of $1, shall be rounded to the next higher dollar.
E. Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, an individual's wages
shall not become benefit wages if he cannot, on the basis of such wages,
meet the qualifying requirements of Section 500E, or if, by reason of
the application of Section 602B, no benefit rights can accrue to him on
the basis of such wages, but he is paid benefits because the wages have
been combined in accordance with the provisions of Section 2700 and
provided further that an individual's wages shall not become benefit wages
if, by reason of the application of the third paragraph of Section 237, he
is paid benefits based upon wages other than those paid in a base period as
defined in the second paragraph of Section 237.
F. Notwithstanding the foregoing subsection, wages paid by a base period
employer, subject to payment of contributions, to an individual who voluntarily
leaves that employer shall not become benefit wages with respect to that
employer but shall instead become the benefit wages of the individual's
next subsequent employer if:
1. The individual had subsequent employment and earned 6 times
his weekly benefit amount or more, prior to the beginning of his benefit year; or
2. For a benefit year beginning after December 31, 1986, the individual
was determined to be ineligible for benefits pursuant to Section 601 from
the last employing unit which was also a base period employer but
thereafter earned 6 times his weekly benefit amount or more from his next
subsequent employer during his benefit year, provided that the disqualifying
separation occurred prior to the first payment of benefits in the
individual's benefit year.
Wages paid to an individual during his base period by an employer for less
than full time work, performed during the same weeks in the base period
during which the individual had other insured work, shall not become
benefit wages (upon such employer's request pursuant
to the regulation of the Director) so long as the employer continued after
the end of the base period, and continues during the applicable benefit
year, to furnish such less than full time work to the individual on the
same basis and in substantially the same amount during the base period.
If the individual is paid benefits with respect to a week (in the applicable
benefit year) after the employer has ceased to furnish the work hereinabove
described, the wages paid by the employer to the individual during his base
period shall become benefit wages as provided in this Section.
G. For the purposes of this Section and of Section 1504, benefits shall
be deemed to have been paid on the date such payment has been mailed to
the individual by the Director.
H. If any benefit wages are increased by reason of the reconsideration
by a claims adjudicator of his finding, the amount of such increase
shall be treated as if it became benefit wages on the day on which the claims
adjudicator made the reconsidered finding.
I. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, no wages
paid by a base period employer shall become benefit wages after September
30, 1989, and no wages paid by a base period employer, subject to the
payment of contributions, shall become the benefit wages of the
individual's next subsequent employer under the provisions of subsection F
above after September 30, 1989.
(Source: P.A. 85-956.)
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