An individual filing a claim for benefits which, if otherwise valid, would establish a subsequent benefit year, in order to be eligible for benefits for such subsequent benefit year, must have returned to work and earned wages in covered employment after the beginning of his previous benefit year equal to or exceeding an amount eight times his weekly benefit rate amount established for the previous benefit year, and be otherwise eligible under the provisions of this article and of this chapter.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 21A. Unemployment Compensation
Article 6. Employee Eligibility; Benefits
§21A-6-1. Eligibility Qualifications
§21A-6-1a. Seasonal Employment
§21A-6-1b. Requalification Requirement
§21A-6-1c. Voluntary Withholding Program
§21A-6-2. Waiting Period Construed
§21A-6-3. Disqualification for Benefits
§21A-6-4. Individual Not Denied Benefits by Receiving Vocational Training
§21A-6-5. Considerations in Determining if Work Is Suitable
§21A-6-6. New Work Not Deemed Suitable
§21A-6-7. When Departments Treated as Separate Establishments With Respect to Labor Disputes
§21A-6-10. Benefit Rate -- Total Unemployment; Annual Computation and Publication of Rates
§21A-6-11. Benefit Rate -- Partial Unemployment
§21A-6-12. Suspension of Partial Benefit Rights
§21A-6-13. Computation of Wage Credits; Determination of Maximum Benefits
§21A-6-14. Payment of Benefits Upon Decease of Claimant
§21A-6-16. Child Support Intercept of Unemployment Benefits
§21A-6-17. Food Stamp Overissuance Intercept of Unemployment Benefits