§ 27-3-301 — Definitions

Wyoming § 27-3-301

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 27: Labor and Employment
• Ch. 3: UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
• Art. 3: BENEFITS

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(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Additional benefits" means benefits payable
under state law to exhaustees due to high unemployment
conditions or other special factors and totally financed by any
state;
(ii) "Applicable benefit year" means an individual's
most recent benefit year or an individual's current benefit year
if at the time of filing a claim for extended benefits his
benefit year is unexpired only in the state in which filing;
(iii) "Eligibility period" means those weeks in an
individual's benefit year beginning in an extended benefit
period and if his benefit year ends within the extended benefit
period, any weeks beginning in this period;
(iv) "Extended benefits" means benefits payable to an
individual under this article for weeks of unemployment in his
eligibility period including benefits payable to federal
employees and veterans under 5 U.S.C. § 8501 et seq.;
(v) "Most recent benefit year" means the benefit year
with the latest ending date for individuals filing a claim for
extended benefits with unexpired benefit years in more than one
(1) state or, if the benefit years have the same ending date,
the benefit year in which the latest continued claim for regular
benefits was filed;
(vi) "Regular benefits" means benefits, excluding
extended and additional benefits, payable to an individual under
this act or any other state law including dependent's allowances
and benefits payable to federal employees or veterans under 5
U.S.C. § 8501 et seq.;
(vii) "State law" means the unemployment insurance
law of any state approved by the United States secretary of
labor under 26 U.S.C. § 3304.