Indiana Code
Chapter 14. Eligibility for Benefits
22-4-14-6. Extended Benefits; Eligibility; Effect of Disqualification

Sec. 6. (a) An individual shall be eligible to receive extended benefits with respect to any week of unemployment in the individual's eligibility period only if the commissioner finds that with respect to such week:
(1) the individual is an "exhaustee" (as defined in IC 22-4-2-34(j)); and
(2) the individual has satisfied the requirements of this article for the receipt of regular benefits that are applicable to extended benefits, including not being subject to a disqualification for the receipt of benefits.
(b) If an individual has been disqualified from receiving extended benefits for failure to actively engage in seeking work under IC 22-4-15-2(c), the ineligibility shall continue for the week in which the failure occurs and until the individual earns remuneration in employment equal to or exceeding the weekly benefit amount of the individual's claim in each of four (4) weeks. For purposes of this subsection, an individual shall be treated as actively engaged in seeking work during any week if:
(1) the individual has engaged in a systematic and sustained effort to obtain work during the week; and
(2) the individual provides tangible evidence to the department of workforce development that the individual has engaged in an effort to obtain work during the week.
(c) For claims for extended benefits established after September 25, 1982, notwithstanding any other provision of this article, an individual shall be eligible to receive extended benefits only if the individual's insured wages in the base period with respect to which the individual exhausted all rights to regular compensation were equal to or exceeded one and one-half (1 1/2) times the individual's insured wages in that calendar quarter of the base period in which the individual's insured wages were the highest.
Formerly: Acts 1971, P.L.355, SEC.33. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.209, SEC.7; Acts 1982, P.L.95, SEC.3; P.L.18-1987, SEC.43; P.L.21-1995, SEC.81; P.L.175-2009, SEC.22.

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