§ 22-4-2-21 — Benefit period

"Benefit period" with respect to any
individual means the fifty-two-consecutive-week period beginning with
the first week as of which an insured worker first files an initial claim
for determination of his insured status, and thereafter the
fifty-two-consecutive-week period beginning with the first week as of
which the individual next files an initial claim after the termination of
his last preceding benefit period.
Formerly: Acts 1947, c.208, s.221; Acts 1951, c.295, s.1; Acts
1953, c.177, s.3. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.2, SEC.74.