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Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, and Washington trigger "off" EB due to the three year look-back.
Based on data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on March 30, 2012, as well as revisions to prior year data released on February 29, 2012, Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, and Washington no longer meet one of the criteria to remain "on" in EB, i.e.,having their current three month average, seasonally adjusted total unemployment rate be at least 110% of one of the rates from a comparable prior period in one of the three prior years. This triggers these states "off" EB and the end of the payable period for these states in the EB program will be the week ending April 21, 2012.
However, GA and IN will be able to access the extra 10 weeks of tier 4. If you would be exhausting your tier 3 benefits on 4/15 and haven't yet submitted your claim, or you will be exhausting your tier 3 benefits on 4/21, it would be in your best interest to skip those weeks and reopen your claim between 4/23 through 4/27 so that you can time your tier 3 exhaust date for 4/28 to score the extra 10 weeks in tier 4.
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