New York A 3904: Relates to increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance

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A03904 Summary:

BILL NOA03904 

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Amd §§518 & 590, Lab L

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Relates to increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance.

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BILL NOA03904 

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01/30/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3904

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the unemployment insurance
 law, increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance

 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 1 of section 518 of the labor
 2 law, as amended by section 1 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of
 3 2013, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (a) "Wages" means all remuneration paid, except that such term does
 5 not include remuneration paid to an employee by an employer after eight
 6 thousand five hundred dollars have been paid to such employee by such
 7 employer with respect to employment during any calendar year, except
 8 that such term does not include remuneration paid to an employee by an
 9 employer with respect to employment during any calendar year beginning
 10 with the first day of
 11 that exceeds
 12 January 2014 $10,300
 13 January 2015 $10,500
 14 January 2016 $10,700
 15 January 2017 $10,900
 16 January 2018 $11,100
 17 January 2019 $11,400
 18 January 2020 $11,600
 19 January 2021 $11,800
 20 January 2022 [$12,000] $12,500
 21 January 2023 [$12,300
 22 January 2024 $12,500
 23 January 2025 $12,800
 24 January 2026 $13,000

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06411-01-5

 A. 3904 2

 1 and each year thereafter on the first day of January that exceeds
 2 sixteen percent of the state's average annual wage as determined by the
 3 commissioner on an annual basis pursuant to section five hundred twen-
 4 ty-nine of this article; provided, however, that in calculating such
 5 maximum amount of remuneration, the amount arrived at by multiplying the
 6 state's average annual wage times sixteen percent shall be rounded up to
 7 the nearest hundred dollars. In no event shall the state's annual aver-
 8 age wage be reduced from the amount determined in the previous year]
 9 $13,500
 10 In each succeeding calendar year, the department shall calculate the
 11 base amount of remuneration necessary from which to produce sufficient
 12 premium to provide for the annual increases in maximum weekly benefit
 13 provided for in this article, and other funding for the unemployment
 14 insurance trust fund pursuant to section five hundred fifty of this
 15 article, as may be necessary. The term "employment" includes for the
 16 purposes of this subdivision services constituting employment under any
 17 unemployment compensation law of another state or the United States.
 18 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 590 of the labor law,
 19 as amended by section 8 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, is
 20 amended to read as follows:
 21 (a) A claimant's weekly benefit amount shall be one twenty-sixth of
 22 the remuneration paid during the highest calendar quarter of the base
 23 period by employers, liable for contributions or payments in lieu of
 24 contributions under this article, provided the claimant has remuneration
 25 paid in all four calendar quarters during [his or her] such claimant's
 26 base period or alternate base period. However, for any claimant who has
 27 remuneration paid in all four calendar quarters during [his or her] such
 28 claimant's base period or alternate base period and whose high calendar
 29 quarter remuneration during the base period is three thousand five
 30 hundred seventy-five dollars or less, the benefit amount shall be one
 31 twenty-fifth of the remuneration paid during the highest calendar quar-
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