Indiana § 22-4-14-5 - Wage credits

§ 22-4-14-5. Wage credits

Sec. 5. An insured worker may not receive benefits in a benefit year unless:

(1) after the beginning of the immediately preceding benefit year during which the individual received benefits, the individual:

(A) performed insured work;

(B) earned remuneration in employment in at least each of eight (8) weeks; and

(C) earned remuneration equal to or exceeding the product of the individual's weekly benefit amount multiplied by eight (8);

(2) the individual has established, after the last day of the individual's last base period, if any, wage credits (as defined in IC 22-4-4-3 and within the meaning of wages under IC 22-4-22-3) equal to at least one and five-tenths (1.5) times the wages paid to the individual in the calendar quarter in which the individual's wages were highest; and

(3) the individual has established wage credits in the last two (2) calendar quarters of the individual's base period in a total amount of not less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) and a total amount in the four (4) calendar quarters of the individual's base period of not less than four thousand two hundred dollars ($4,200).

Formerly: Acts 1947, c.208, s.1405; Acts 1965, c.190, s.8; Acts 1971, P.L.355, SEC.32; Acts 1974, P.L.110, SEC.3. As amended by Acts 1980, P.L.158, SEC.4; P.L.34-1985, SEC.6; P.L.171-1991, SEC.5; P.L.21-1995, SEC.80; P.L.166-1996, SEC.2; P.L.175-2009, SEC.21; P.L.183-2015, SEC.6; P.L.113-2026, SEC.16.