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Benefit Payments

A claimant who is determined eligible for benefits must serve a waiting week before being paid benefits. Only one waiting week is required during the benefit year. After serving the waiting week the claimant is paid benefits for subsequent weeks of total or partial unemployment if not disqualified and the deputy finds that all the eligibility requirements of the law have been met. Beginning in 2008, the waiting week will be paid once the balance on the claim is equal to or less than the payable amount for a week.

If a claimant has received benefits and later receives a backpay award for the same period, the claimant may be overpaid if the backpay is ordered by a governmental agency, court of competent jurisdiction or as a result of arbitration proceedings.

If an overpayment is established under these circumstances, the employer is required to withhold from the backpay award the amount of benefits determined overpaid. This amount is then paid to the Division by the employer.

In order for the employer to determine the amount of benefits paid in these cases, the employer should contact the central office of the Division.