Change in Status of an Extended Benefit (EB) Period: Kentucky

Federal Register: June 25, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 121)

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

Notice of a Change in Status of an Extended Benefit (EB) Period for Kentucky

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces a change in benefit period eligibility under the EB program for Kentucky.

The following change has occurred since the publication of the last notice regarding Kentucky's EB status:

Kentucky has modified its law by adding a total unemployment rate (TUR) trigger retroactive to February 1, 2009. As a result, Kentucky has retroactively triggered ``on'' to an extended benefit period for weeks of unemployment beginning February 22, 2009, and ``on'' to a high unemployment period (HUP) for weeks of unemployment beginning April 12, 2009. Eligible unemployed workers will be able to collect up to an additional 20 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits.

Information for Claimants

The duration of benefits payable in the EB program, and the terms and conditions on which they are payable, are governed by the Federal-

State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, as amended, and the operating instructions issued to the states by the U.S. Department of Labor. In the case of a state beginning an HUP, the State Workforce

Agency will furnish a written notice of potential entitlement to each individual who has exhausted all rights to regular benefits and is potentially eligible for EB (20 CFR 615.13(c)(1)). Persons who believe they may be entitled to EB or who wish to inquire about their rights under the program should contact their State Workforce Agency.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Gibbons, U.S. Department of

Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Workforce

Security, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Frances Perkins Bldg. Room S- 4231, Washington, DC 20210, telephone number (202) 693-3008 (this is not a toll-free number) or by e-mail: gibbons.scott@dol.gov.

Signed in Washington, DC, this 19th day of June 2009.

Douglas F. Small,

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.

FR Doc. E9-14974 Filed 6-24-09; 8:45 am

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