23-636. Total extended benefit amount; certain adjustments

A. Except as provided in subsection D of this section, the total extended benefit amount payable to an eligible individual with respect to his applicable benefit year shall be the least of the following amounts:

1. Fifty per cent of the total amount of regular benefits which were payable to him under this chapter in his applicable benefit year; or

2. Thirteen times his weekly benefit amount which was payable to him under this chapter for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year.

B. If the amount computed in accordance with subsection A or D of this section is not a multiple of one dollar, it shall be computed to the next lower multiple of one dollar.

C. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the benefit year of an individual ends within an extended benefit period, the remaining balance of extended benefits that such individual would be entitled to receive in that extended benefit period, with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning after the end of the benefit year, shall be reduced by the product of the number of weeks for which the individual received any trade readjustment allowances within that benefit year, multiplied by the individual's weekly extended benefit amount.

D. With respect to a high unemployment period, the amounts in subsection A of this section shall be applied by substituting the following:

1. In subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section, eighty for fifty.

2. In subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section, twenty for thirteen.

E. Subsection D of this section only applies from and after January 31, 2009 until the week ending three weeks before the last week the federal sharing is authorized by Public Law 111-5, section 2005(a) or the week ending December 12, 2009, whichever is later.

F. For the purposes of subsection D of this section, " high unemployment period" means any period during which an extended benefit period applies if eight per cent is substituted for six and one-half per cent in section 23-630, subsection A, paragraph 3, subdivision (a).