| (a) For a claimant who is eligible for regular compensation,
including Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) and
Unemployment Compensation for Ex-servicemembers (UCX), the following
order of payment applies:
(1) The claimant must first apply for and receive regular
compensation. The amount and duration of these benefits are as defined
by the Act;
(2) if the claimant exhausts regular compensation,
the claimant may then be eligible to receive PEUC;
(3) if the claimant exhausts PEUC and the state has
"triggered on" to Extended Benefits (EB) under Chapter 209 of the
Act, the claimant may then be eligible to receive EB;
(4) if the State is not "triggered on" to EB or the
claimant exhausts EB, the claimant may then be eligible to receive
PUA. If the State "triggers on" to EB during the period in which the
claimant is collecting PUA and the claimant has not previously exhausted
entitlement to EB for the respective benefit year, then the claimant
must stop collecting PUA and file for EB; and
(5) the claimant meets the qualifications to receive
Trade Readjustment Allowances (TRA), such benefits will be payable
after regular compensation, PEUC, and EB if "triggered on," but prior
to PUA.
(b) For a claimant who is not eligible for regular
compensation, PEUC, EB, or TRA, and who meets the federal requirements,
the claimant may be eligible to collect PUA.
(c) If a claimant is receiving PEUC, EB, or PUA, and
becomes eligible for regular compensation, the claimant must stop
collecting PEUC, EB, or PUA and file a new claim for regular compensation,
with the following exception: For a claimant whose regular compensation
benefit year expires after December 27, 2020, if the claimant is entitled
to, and has a remaining entitlement to, PEUC with respect to that
benefit year, the Agency shall establish a new benefit year, but defer
the payment of regular compensation with respect to that new benefit
year until exhaustion of all PEUC payable with respect to the prior
benefit year if the individual's weekly benefit amount of regular
compensation in the new benefit year is at least $25 less than the
individual's weekly benefit amount on the PEUC claim.
(d) A claimant who is receiving EB for the week of
unemployment that includes December 27, 2020, or the week ending March
13, 2021, shall not be eligible for PEUC until the individual has
exhausted all rights to EB.
(e) For weeks of unemployment beginning January 3,
2021, a claimant's eligibility for EB shall be considered to include
any week that begins after the individual exhausts all rights to PEUC
and that falls during an EB period that began after the date the individual
exhausted all rights to PEUC. This applies even if the claimant's
benefit year has expired, provided the state is in an EB period as
of the date the individual exhausts PEUC.
(f) FPUC provides for additional compensation to a
claimant collecting regular compensation, PEUC, PUA, EB, a Shared
Work program under Chapter 215 of the Act, TRA, and Disaster Unemployment
Assistance (DUA). Claimants will receive FPUC payments concurrently
with payments under these programs.
(g) MEUC provides for additional compensation to a
claimant collecting regular compensation, PEUC, EB, a Shared Work
program under Chapter 215 of the Act, TRA, and DUA. It does not provide
additional compensation to a claimant collecting PUA. Claimants will
receive MEUC payments concurrently with payments under these programs.
(h) In operationalizing these requirements, the Agency
may further amend the dates in this section in response to federal
statute or regulation.
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