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Originally Posted by Packerstj123
My benefit year ended on 10/29/11 and i was supposed to start a new benefit year on 11/05/11, but i received a letter stating I have Emergency Unemployment compensation remaining on my prior benefit year. Would I be able to start a new benefit year when i exhaust all my EUC benefits?
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Generally, new claims provide a smaller benefit than older claims. You are probably better off continuing on the tiers from your original claim. You will only be eligible for a "new benefit year" for another round of state benefits if you have worked during the past twelve months and those earnings create eligibility for a new state claim.
Otherwise, WI will have you continue the EUC tiers your first claim. By now, you are probably on Tier 2 and can exhaust what remains of that tier into 2012. If Congress extends the unemployment legislation in its present form, you will continue on to Tier 3 and then EB (13 weeks). Wisconsin is not paying Tier IV or HUP (the final 7 weeks of EB)
If you are working part-time, at some point those earnings may create eligibility for a new claim. The state is required to test for new claim eligibility quarterly or whenever you transition to another tier or EB. State benefits must be paid before federal benefits, thus the reevaluations.
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