AB68-SSA1,867,8 1. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or after January 5, 2014, but before January 2, 2022, $370.

AB68-SSA1,867,10 2. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or after January 2, 2022, but before January 1, 2023, $409.

AB68-SSA1,867,13 3. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 7, 2024, $409 or 50 percent of the state's annual average weekly wage, rounded up to the nearest dollar, whichever is greater.

AB68-SSA1,867,17 4. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or after January 7, 2024, the department shall set an annual maximum weekly benefit amount that takes effect on the 1st Sunday in January of each calendar year and that is equal to the greater of the following:

AB68-SSA1,867,19 a. Seventy-five percent of the state's annual average weekly wage, rounded up to the nearest dollar.

AB68-SSA1,867,20 b. The maximum benefit amount in effect in the previous calendar year.

AB68-SSA1,1802 Section 1802. 108.05 (1) (r) of the statutes is renumbered 108.05 (1) (r) (intro.) and amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,868,5 108.05 (1) (r) (intro.) Except as provided in s. 108.062 (6) (a), each eligible employee shall be paid benefits for each week of total unemployment that commences on or after January 5, 2014, at the a weekly benefit rate specified in this paragraph. Unless sub. (1m) applies, the weekly benefit rate shall equal to 4 percent of the employee's base period wages that were paid during that quarter of the employee's base period in which the employee was paid the highest total wages, rounded down to the nearest whole dollar, except that, if that amount as provided under sub. (1m), and unless one of the following applies:

AB68-SSA1,868,7 1. If the employee's weekly benefit rate calculated under this paragraph is less than $54, no benefits are payable to the employee and, if that amount.

AB68-SSA1,868,10 2. If the employee's weekly benefit rate is more than $370 the maximum weekly benefit amount under par. (cm), the employee's weekly benefit rate shall be $370 and except that, if the maximum weekly benefit amount under par. (cm).

AB68-SSA1,868,13 3. If the employee's benefits are exhausted during any week under s. 108.06 (1), the employee shall be paid the remaining amount of benefits payable to the employee under s. 108.06 (1).

AB68-SSA1,868,16 (s) The department shall publish on its Internet site a weekly benefit rate schedule of quarterly wages and the corresponding weekly benefit rates as calculated in accordance with this paragraph subsection.

AB68-SSA1,1803 Section 1803. 108.05 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,869,7 108.05 (3) (a) Except as provided in pars. (c) , and (d) and (dm) and s. 108.062, if an eligible employee earns wages in a given week, the first $30 of the wages shall be disregarded and the employee's applicable weekly benefit payment shall be reduced by 67 percent of the remaining amount, except that no such employee is eligible for benefits if the employee's benefit payment would be less than $5 for any week. For purposes of this paragraph, “wages" includes any salary reduction amounts earned that are not wages and that are deducted from the salary of a claimant by an employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement under a cafeteria plan, within the meaning of 26 USC 125, and any amount that a claimant would have earned in available work under s. 108.04 (1) (a) which is treated as wages under s. 108.04 (1) (bm), but excludes any amount that a claimant earns for services performed as a volunteer fire fighter, volunteer emergency medical services practitioner, or volunteer emergency medical responder. In applying this paragraph, the department shall disregard discrepancies of less than $2 between wages reported by employees and employers.

AB68-SSA1,1804 Section 1804. 108.05 (3) (dm) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,1805 Section 1805. 108.05 (7m) (title), (c) and (d) of the statutes are created to read:

AB68-SSA1,869,10 108.05 (7m) (title) Social security disability insurance payments.

AB68-SSA1,869,15 (c) If a monthly social security disability insurance payment is issued to a claimant, the department shall reduce benefits otherwise payable to the claimant for a given week in accordance with par. (d). This subsection does not apply to a lump sum social security disability insurance payment in the nature of a retroactive payment or back pay.

AB68-SSA1,869,18 (d) The department shall allocate a monthly social security disability insurance payment by allocating to each week the fraction of the payment attributable to that week.

AB68-SSA1,1806 Section 1806. 108.05 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,869,23 108.05 (9) Rounding of benefit amounts. Notwithstanding sub. (1), benefits payable for a week of unemployment as a result of applying sub. (1m), (3) or, (7), or (7m) or s. 108.04 (11) or (12), 108.06 (1), 108.13 (4) or (5) or 108.135 shall be rounded down to the next lowest dollar.

AB68-SSA1,1807 Section 1807. 108.05 (10) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,870,4 108.05 (10) Deductions from benefit payments. (intro.) After calculating the benefit payment due to be paid for a week under subs. (1) to (7) (7m), the department shall make deductions from that payment to the extent that the payment is sufficient to make the following payments in the following order:

AB68-SSA1,1808 Section 1808. 108.133 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,1809 Section 1809. 108.14 (2e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,870,22 108.14 (2e) The department may shall provide a secure means of electronic interchange between itself and employing units, claimants, and other persons that, upon request to and with prior approval by the department, may shall be used for departmental transmission or receipt of any document specified by the department that is related to the administration of this chapter in lieu of any other means of submission or receipt specified in this chapter. The secure means of electronic interchange shall be used by employing units, claimants, and other persons unless a person demonstrates good cause for not being able to use the secure means of electronic interchange. The department shall determine by rule what constitutes good cause, for purposes of this subsection. Subject to s. 137.25 (2) and any rules promulgated thereunder, the department may permit the use of the use of electronic records and electronic signatures for any document specified by the department that is related to the administration of this chapter. If a due date is established by statute for the receipt of any document that is submitted electronically to the department under this subsection, then that submission is timely only if the document is submitted by midnight of the statutory due date.

AB68-SSA1,1810 Section 1810. 108.14 (8n) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,871,12 108.14 (8n) (e) The department shall charge this state's share of any benefits paid under this subsection to the account of each employer by which the employee claiming benefits was employed in the applicable base period, in proportion to the total amount of wages he or she earned from each employer in the base period, except that if s. 108.04 (1) (f), (5), (7) (a), (c), (cg), (e), (L), (q), (s), or (t), (7m), or (8) (a) or (b), or 108.07 (3), (3r), or (5) (am) 2., or 108.133 (3) (f) would have applied to employment by such an employer who is subject to the contribution requirements of ss. 108.17 and 108.18, the department shall charge the share of benefits based on employment with that employer to the fund's balancing account, or, if s. 108.04 (1) (f) or (5) or 108.07 (3) would have applied to an employer that is not subject to the contribution requirements of ss. 108.17 and 108.18, the department shall charge the share of benefits based on that employment in accordance with s. 108.07 (5) (am) 1. and 2. The department shall also charge the fund's balancing account with any other state's share of such benefits pending reimbursement by that state.

AB68-SSA1,1811 Section 1811 . 108.14 (26m) of the statutes is created to read: