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Committee debates changes to unemployment calculations and proposal to expand UI for school support staff
Summary
Senators examined a draft that would exclude certain earnings from weekly unemployment benefit calculations and a companion provision to extend or clarify unemployment insurance coverage for school support staff. Members asked the Joint Fiscal Office for separate cost estimates and scheduled further testimony.
Committee members reviewed a bill with two distinct unemployment-related provisions: (1) a change to disregarded earnings that would exclude particular earnings from the gross-wages calculation for weekly unemployment benefits and (2) an expansion or clarification of unemployment insurance (UI) coverage for school support staff.
A staff presenter explained the first change as a modification to the "disregarded earnings" rule: under current practice some reported gross wages are partially disregarded when computing UI. "Right now,…
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