Indiana § 22-4-2-21 - Benefit period

Full text of Indiana Indiana Code § 22-4-2-21 — Benefit period, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 22-4-2-21. Benefit period

Sec. 21. "Benefit period" with respect to any individual means the fifty-two-consecutive-week period beginning with the first week as of which an insured worker first files an initial claim for determination of his insured status, and thereafter the fifty-two-consecutive-week period beginning with the first week as of which the individual next files an initial claim after the termination of his last preceding benefit period.

Formerly: Acts 1947, c.208, s.221; Acts 1951, c.295, s.1; Acts 1953, c.177, s.3. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.2, SEC.74.

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