Rule 300-2-4-.12 - Coordination of Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation with Regular State Unemployment Compensation(1) An individual with remaining entitlement to pandemic emergency unemployment compensation with respect to a benefit year that expired after December 27, 2020, shall file a new initial claim for regular state unemployment compensation as a prerequisite to receiving any weeks of unemployment compensation after the prior benefit year expired. If, as of the effective date of filing a new initial claim: (a) The individual cannot establish a valid claim for regular state unemployment compensation, payment of pandemic emergency unemployment compensation with respect to the expired benefit year shall resume until entitlement to such benefits has exhausted;(b) The individual can establish a valid claim for regular state unemployment compensation with a weekly benefit amount of at least $25.00 less than the weekly benefit amount of the expired benefit year, a new benefit year of regular state unemployment compensation shall be established, provided; however, that payment of regular state unemployment compensation shall be deferred until entitlement to pandemic emergency unemployment compensation with respect to the expired benefit year has exhausted; or(c) The individual can establish a valid claim for regular state unemployment compensation with a weekly benefit amount greater than the weekly benefit amount of the expired benefit year less $25.00, a new benefit year of regular state unemployment compensation shall be established and such individual shall not be entitled to pandemic emergency unemployment compensation with respect to the expired benefit year until entitlement to regular state unemployment compensation with respect to the new benefit year has exhausted.(2) This rule shall only be given effect to the extent that it is consistent with Section 206 of the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020 or otherwise does not create a conformity issue with federal law.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 300-2-4-.12
O.C.G.A. §§ 34-2-6(a)(4), 34-8-70, 34-8-190(a).
Original Rule entitled "Coordination of Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation with Regular State Unemployment Compensation" adopted. F. Feb. 9, 2021; eff. Mar. 1, 2021.