NRS 612.378 Maximum amount of extended benefit payable during year.

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1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, the total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible person for the person’s applicable benefit year is the lesser of the following amounts:

(a)Fifty percent of the basic benefits which were payable to him or her in the benefit year. If the amount computed is not a multiple of $1, it must be computed to the next lower multiple of $1.

(b)Thirteen times the person’s average weekly benefit amount which was payable to him or her under this chapter for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year. If the amount computed is not a multiple of $1, it must be computed to the next lower multiple of $1.

(c)Thirty-nine times the person’s average weekly benefit amount which was payable to him or her under this chapter for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year, reduced by the basic benefits which were payable to him or her in the benefit year. If the amount computed is not a multiple of $1, it must be computed to the next lower multiple of $1.

2. In weeks beginning in a high unemployment period on or after March 18, 2020, and ending on or before the week ending 3 weeks before the last week for which full federal sharing is authorized by section 4105(a) of Public Law No. 116-127, or which occur during a period of time specified by the Governor in a proclamation issued pursuant to subsection 5, the total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible person for the person’s applicable benefit year is the lesser of the following amounts:

(a)Eighty percent of the basic benefits which were payable to him or her in the benefit year. If the amount computed is not a multiple of $1, it must be computed to the next lower multiple of $1.

(b)Twenty times the person’s average weekly benefit amount which was payable to him or her under this chapter for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year. If the amount computed is not a multiple of $1, it must be computed to the next lower multiple of $1.

(c)Forty-six times the person’s average weekly benefit amount which was payable to him or her under this chapter for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year, reduced by the basic benefits which were payable to him or her in the benefit year. If the amount computed is not a multiple of $1, it must be computed to the next lower multiple of $1.

3. During any fiscal year in which federal payments made to this State pursuant to section 204 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, Public Law No. 91-373, as amended, are reduced pursuant to an order issued pursuant to section 254 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, Public Law No. 99-177, as amended, the total extended benefit amount payable to an eligible person for the person’s applicable benefit year pursuant to subsection 1 must be reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate of the reductions made to his or her weekly extended benefit amount pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 612.3776 .

4. If the benefit year of any person ends within an extended benefit period, the remaining balance of extended benefits that the person would, but for this subsection, be entitled to receive in that period, with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning after the end of the benefit year, must be reduced by the product of the number of weeks for which the person received any amounts as trade readjustment allowances pursuant to 19 U.S.C. § 2291 within that benefit year, multiplied by the weekly benefit amount of extended benefits, but the balance must not be reduced below zero.

5. If the Governor determines that a federal law authorizes full federal sharing for one or more weeks to cover the costs of extended benefits incurred pursuant to subsection 2, the Governor shall issue a proclamation stating that determination and specifying the weeks during which the extended benefits are available.

6. As used in this section, “high unemployment period” means any period during which the average rate of total seasonally adjusted unemployment in Nevada, as determined by the Secretary of Labor, for the period consisting of the most recent 3 months for which data for all states are published before the close of such week:

(a)Equaled or exceeded 8 percent; and

(b)Equaled or exceeded 110 percent of the average rate for the corresponding 3-month period ending in either of the 2 preceding calendar years.