Florida Tier 2 Unemployment Insurance

For those Floridians that need to know the details of the state's extended unemployment compensation plan you should check out this information

Essentially:

To be eligible for the additional EUC benefits, the claimant must:

• Have filed a claim on or after May 2, 2006
• Have exhausted all rights to regular UC under state or federal law.
• Have no rights to regular or extended UC in any other state.
• Not eligible for benefits in Canada.

and

Calculation of EUC Benefits for the Additional Extension

• Weekly Benefit Amount of the EUC claim will be the same amount received on the regular claim that the extension is based on.

• The total EUC Available Credits will be the lesser of:

• 80 % of the Available Credits on the regular UC claim up to a maximum of 20 weeks.OR
• 20 times the individuals weekly benefit amount