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1. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or
8after January 5, 2014, but before January 2, 2022, $370.
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2. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or
10after January 2, 2022, but before January 1, 2023, $409.
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3. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or
12after January 1, 2023, but before January 7, 2024, $409 or 50 percent of the state's
13annual average weekly wage, rounded up to the nearest dollar, whichever is greater.
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4. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or
15after January 7, 2024, the department shall set an annual maximum weekly benefit
16amount that takes effect on the 1st Sunday in January of each calendar year and that
17is equal to the greater of the following:
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a. Seventy-five percent of the state's annual average weekly wage, rounded up
19to the nearest dollar.
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b. The maximum benefit amount in effect in the previous calendar year.
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21Section
1802. 108.05 (1) (r) of the statutes is renumbered 108.05 (1) (r) (intro.)
22and amended to read:
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108.05
(1) (r) (intro.) Except as provided in s. 108.062 (6) (a), each eligible
24employee shall be paid benefits for each week of total unemployment
that
25commences on or after January 5, 2014, at
the
a weekly benefit rate
specified in this
1paragraph. Unless sub. (1m) applies, the weekly benefit rate shall equal
to 4 percent
2of the employee's base period wages that were paid during that quarter of the
3employee's base period in which the employee was paid the highest total wages,
4rounded down to the nearest whole dollar, except
that, if that amount as provided
5under sub. (1m), and unless one of the following applies:
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61. If the employee's weekly benefit rate calculated under this paragraph is less
7than $54, no benefits are payable to the employee
and, if that amount.
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82. If the employee's weekly benefit rate is more than
$370 the maximum weekly
9benefit amount under par. (cm), the employee's weekly benefit rate shall be
$370 and
10except that, if the maximum weekly benefit amount under par. (cm).
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113. If the employee's benefits are exhausted during any week under s. 108.06 (1),
12the employee shall be paid the remaining amount of benefits payable to the employee
13under s. 108.06 (1).
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14(s) The department shall publish on its Internet site a weekly benefit rate
15schedule of quarterly wages and the corresponding weekly benefit rates as
16calculated in accordance with this
paragraph
subsection.
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17Section
1803. 108.05 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.05
(3) (a) Except as provided in pars. (c)
, and (d)
and (dm) and s. 108.062,
19if an eligible employee earns wages in a given week, the first $30 of the wages shall
20be disregarded and the employee's applicable weekly benefit payment shall be
21reduced by 67 percent of the remaining amount, except that no such employee is
22eligible for benefits if the employee's benefit payment would be less than $5 for any
23week. For purposes of this paragraph, “wages" includes any salary reduction
24amounts earned that are not wages and that are deducted from the salary of a
25claimant by an employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement under a cafeteria
1plan, within the meaning of
26 USC 125, and any amount that a claimant would have
2earned in available work under s. 108.04 (1) (a) which is treated as wages under s.
3108.04 (1) (bm), but excludes any amount that a claimant earns for services
4performed as a volunteer fire fighter, volunteer emergency medical services
5practitioner, or volunteer emergency medical responder. In applying this paragraph,
6the department shall disregard discrepancies of less than $2 between wages reported
7by employees and employers.
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8Section
1804. 108.05 (3) (dm) of the statutes is repealed.
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9Section
1805. 108.05 (7m) (title), (c) and (d) of the statutes are created to read:
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108.05
(7m) (title)
Social security disability insurance payments.
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(c) If a monthly social security disability insurance payment is issued to a
12claimant, the department shall reduce benefits otherwise payable to the claimant for
13a given week in accordance with par. (d). This subsection does not apply to a lump
14sum social security disability insurance payment in the nature of a retroactive
15payment or back pay.
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(d) The department shall allocate a monthly social security disability insurance
17payment by allocating to each week the fraction of the payment attributable to that
18week.
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19Section
1806. 108.05 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.05
(9) Rounding of benefit amounts. Notwithstanding sub. (1), benefits
21payable for a week of unemployment as a result of applying sub. (1m), (3)
or, (7)
, or
22(7m) or s. 108.04 (11) or (12), 108.06 (1), 108.13 (4) or (5) or 108.135 shall be rounded
23down to the next lowest dollar.
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24Section
1807. 108.05 (10) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1108.05
(10) Deductions from benefit payments. (intro.) After calculating the
2benefit payment due to be paid for a week under subs. (1) to
(7) (7m), the department
3shall make deductions from that payment to the extent that the payment is sufficient
4to make the following payments in the following order:
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6Section
1809. 108.14 (2e) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(2e) The department
may
shall provide a secure means of electronic
8interchange between itself and employing units, claimants, and other persons that
,
9upon request to and with prior approval by the department, may
shall be used for
10departmental transmission or receipt of any document specified by the department
11that is related to the administration of this chapter in lieu of any other means of
12submission or receipt specified in this chapter.
The secure means of electronic
13interchange shall be used by employing units, claimants, and other persons unless
14a person demonstrates good cause for not being able to use the secure means of
15electronic interchange. The department shall determine by rule what constitutes
16good cause, for purposes of this subsection. Subject to s. 137.25 (2) and any rules
17promulgated thereunder, the department may permit the use of the use of electronic
18records and electronic signatures for any document specified by the department that
19is related to the administration of this chapter. If a due date is established by statute
20for the receipt of any document that is submitted electronically to the department
21under this subsection, then that submission is timely only if the document is
22submitted by midnight of the statutory due date.
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23Section
1810. 108.14 (8n) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(8n) (e) The department shall charge this state's share of any benefits
25paid under this subsection to the account of each employer by which the employee
1claiming benefits was employed in the applicable base period, in proportion to the
2total amount of wages he or she earned from each employer in the base period, except
3that if s. 108.04 (1) (f), (5), (7) (a), (c), (cg), (e), (L), (q), (s), or (t), (7m)
, or (8) (a)
or (b), 4or 108.07 (3), (3r), or (5) (am) 2.
, or 108.133 (3) (f) would have applied to employment
5by such an employer who is subject to the contribution requirements of ss. 108.17 and
6108.18, the department shall charge the share of benefits based on employment with
7that employer to the fund's balancing account, or, if s. 108.04 (1) (f) or (5) or 108.07
8(3) would have applied to an employer that is not subject to the contribution
9requirements of ss. 108.17 and 108.18, the department shall charge the share of
10benefits based on that employment in accordance with s. 108.07 (5) (am) 1. and 2.
11The department shall also charge the fund's balancing account with any other state's
12share of such benefits pending reimbursement by that state.
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13Section 1811
. 108.14 (26m) of the statutes is created to read: