New York A 6168: Increases the unemployment insurance minimum benefit amount

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
A06168 Summary:

BILL NOA06168A

&nbsp

SAME ASNo Same As

&nbsp

SPONSORLunsford

&nbsp

COSPNSRShimsky

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Amd §590, Lab L

&nbsp

Increases the unemployment insurance minimum benefit amount to $860 per week.

Go to top A06168 Actions:

BILL NOA06168A

&nbsp

02/26/2025referred to labor

04/15/2025amend and recommit to labor

04/15/2025print number 6168a

01/07/2026referred to labor

Go to topA06168 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topA06168 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA06168 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6168--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 26, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
 as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to increasing the unemploy-
 ment insurance minimum weekly benefit amount

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 590 of the labor
 2 law, as amended by section 8 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of
 3 2013, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (a) A claimant's weekly benefit amount shall be one twenty-sixth of
 5 the remuneration paid during the highest calendar quarter of the base
 6 period by employers, liable for contributions or payments in lieu of
 7 contributions under this article, provided the claimant has remuneration
 8 paid in all four calendar quarters during [his or her] such claimant's
 9 base period or alternate base period, but shall not be less than eight
 10 hundred sixty dollars. However, for any claimant who has remuneration
 11 paid in all four calendar quarters during [his or her] such claimant's
 12 base period or alternate base period and whose high calendar quarter
 13 remuneration during the base period is three thousand five hundred
 14 seventy-five dollars or less, the benefit amount shall be one twenty-
 15 fifth of the remuneration paid during the highest calendar quarter of
 16 the base period by employers liable for contributions or payments in
 17 lieu of contributions under this article, but shall not be less than
 18 eight hundred sixty dollars. A claimant's weekly benefit shall be one
 19 twenty-sixth of the average remuneration paid in the two highest quar-
 20 ters paid during the base period or alternate base period by employers
 21 liable for contributions or payments in lieu of contributions under this
 22 article when the claimant has remuneration paid in two or three calendar
 23 quarters provided however, that a claimant whose high calendar quarter
 24 is four thousand dollars or less but greater than three thousand five
 25 hundred seventy-five dollars shall have a weekly benefit amount of one
 26 twenty-sixth of such high calendar quarter, but shall not be less than
 27 eight hundred sixty dollars. However, for any claimant who has remunera-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09341-02-5

 A. 6168--A 2

 1 tion paid in two or three calendar quarters during [his or her] such
 2 claimant's base period or alternate base period and whose high calendar
 3 quarter remuneration during the base period is three thousand five
 4 hundred seventy-five dollars or less, the benefit amount shall be one
 5 twenty-fifth of the remuneration paid during the highest calendar quar-
 6 ter of the base period by employers liable for contributions or payments
 7 in lieu of contributions under this article, but shall not be less than
 8 eight hundred sixty dollars. Any claimant whose high calendar quarter
 9 remuneration during the base period is more than three thousand five
 10 hundred seventy-five dollars shall not have a weekly benefit amount less
 11 than [one] eight hundred [forty-three] sixty dollars. The weekly benefit
 12 amount, so computed, that is not a multiple of one dollar shall be
 13 lowered to the next multiple of one dollar. On the first Monday of
 14 September, nineteen hundred ninety-eight the weekly benefit amount shall
 15 not exceed three hundred sixty-five dol