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Committee approves amendment raising top weekly UI benefit but votes against advancing bill
Summary
A House labor committee approved an amendment to House Bill 542 that would raise New Hampshire's maximum weekly unemployment benefit to $535, but the committee ultimately voted not to advance the bill, sending it on an 'inexpedient to legislate' recommendation.
A House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee on Thursday approved an amendment to House Bill 542 that would increase the state's maximum weekly unemployment benefit to $535, but later voted not to advance the bill.
The amendment, introduced by Representative Mark McKenzie (Hillsborough District 40), reduces the number of new benefit tiers proposed in the original bill and raises the top of the benefit schedule from $427 to $535 a week for workers with higher base-period earnings.
The change, McKenzie said in committee testimony, "takes back 6 of the 12 steps that were proposed" in the original draft and is designed to "strike a balance" between improving wage replacement for higher earners and preserving the solvency of the unemployment trust fund. He told committee members the…
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