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Texas Unemployment Insurance Posters

September 4th, 2006 Posted by Emily

According to Texas Unemployment Insurance poster, the Texas law provides that under certain conditions weekly payments of money may be made to unemployed individuals from an unemployment compensation fund contributed to by employers subject to unemployment taxes or reimbursements

An unemployed individual can qualify for benefits if during that claimant’s Base Period sufficient wage credits were earned by that claimant from employers covered by the Act on which the claim may be established in accordance with the Act. A base period is the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the date of an initial claim for unemployment compensation. Additionally, if a claimant qualified for benefits on a prior claim, they must have earned 6 times their current computed Weekly Benefit Amount since then.

As employees will learn by reading Texas Unemployment Insurance posters, the amount of a claimant’s benefits depends on the amount of qualifying wages they were paid during their base period. The weekly payment for a seven consecutive day period of total unemployment is determined by taking the wage total of the highest calendar quarter in their base period and dividing that total by 25. This weekly payment is called the Weekly Benefit Amount (WBA). If the answer is not an exact dollar amount, it is raised to the next highest dollar amount not to exceed the maximum allowed under the law. The resulting answer (quotient) can be neither less than the current minimum nor more than the current maximum amount per week. These amounts are established in accordance with the Act.

An employer should protest a claim when knowledge of any facts is available that may adversely affect the claimant’s right to receive unemployment benefits or that may affect a charge to the employer’s account. The law provides that an employer has 14 days from the date the notice is mailed in which to call, mail or fax a protest. Such protest should be mailed, faxed or submitted verbally to the office from which notice of the claim was mailed.