If the benefit year ends during a period of total unemployment for any individual, such individual shall serve a new waiting period of one week before benefits accruing in the new benefit year shall be payable.
During the waiting period, the individual must be eligible in all respects, except for the requirements of subsection (2) of section one of this article. No week shall be counted as the waiting period week if benefits have been paid with respect to such week.
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