Wisconsin § 108.05 - Amount of benefits.

§ 108.05. Amount of benefits.

108.05(1) (1) Weekly benefit rate for total unemployment. 108.05(1)(r) (r) 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 weekly benefit rate specified in this paragraph. Unless sub. (1m) applies, the weekly benefit rate shall equal 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 is less than $54, no benefits are payable to the employee and, if that amount is more than $370, the employee’s weekly benefit rate shall be $370 and except that, 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) . 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. 108.05(1m) (1m) Final payments in certain cases. Whenever, as of the beginning of any week, the difference between the maximum amount of benefits potentially payable to an employee, as computed under this section and s. 108.06 (1) , and the amount of benefits otherwise payable to the employee for that week is $5 or less, the benefits payable to the employee for that week shall be that maximum amount. 108.05(3) (3) Benefits for partial unemployment. 108.05(3)(a) (a) Except as provided in pars. (c) , (d) and (dm) and s.