Authorizes a claimant to receive a dependent allowance in addition to unemployment insurance benefits

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Authorizes a claimant to receive a dependent allowance in addition to unemployment insurance benefits

Authorizes a claimant to receive a dependent allowance in addition to unemployment insurance benefits Provides that a claimant eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits shall also be entitled to receive a dependent allowance which shall begin at forty-five dollars and shall increase annually by an amount determined by the department of labor; directs the department of labor to report to the legislature following each calendar quarter certain information about dependent allowances and to make such reports available on its website; provides that a claimant's maximum benefit amount, including such dependent allowance, shall not exceed one hundred percent of such claimant's average weekly wage from their highest-earning calendar quarter.

What This Bill Does

• Authorizes a claimant to receive a dependent allowance in addition to unemployment insurance benefits Provides that a claimant eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits shall also be entitled to receive a dependent allowance which shall begin at forty-five dollars and shall increase annually by an amount determined by the department of labor; directs the department of labor to report to the legislature following each calendar quarter certain information about dependent allowances and to make such reports available on its website; provides that a claimant's maximum benefit amount, including such dependent allowance, shall not exceed one hundred percent of such claimant's average weekly wage from their highest-earning calendar quarter.

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Official Summary Text

Authorizes a claimant to receive a dependent allowance in addition to unemployment insurance benefits
Provides that a claimant eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits shall also be entitled to receive a dependent allowance which shall begin at forty-five dollars and shall increase annually by an amount determined by the department of labor; directs the department of labor to report to the legislature following each calendar quarter certain information about dependent allowances and to make such reports available on its website; provides that a claimant's maximum benefit amount, including such dependent allowance, shall not exceed one hundred percent of such claimant's average weekly wage from their highest-earning calendar quarter.

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      March 6, 2026
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        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to authorizing a claimant  to
          receive  a  dependent  allowance in addition to unemployment insurance
          benefits

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section  590  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 13 to read as follows:
     3    13. DEPENDENT ALLOWANCE. (A) IN  ADDITION  TO  THE  BENEFITS  RECEIVED
     4  PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION, A CLAIMANT ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH BENEFITS SHALL
     5  ALSO BE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE A DEPENDENT ALLOWANCE. SUCH DEPENDENT ALLOW-
     6  ANCE SHALL BE EQUAL TO FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS PER DEPENDENT PER WEEK.
     7    (B) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM  "DEPENDENT"  SHALL
     8  MEAN:
     9    (I)  CHILDREN  EIGHTEEN  YEARS OLD AND YOUNGER, INCLUDING FOSTER CHIL-
    10  DREN, STEPCHILDREN, AND CHILDREN FOR WHOM  THE  CLAIMANT  HAS  AT  LEAST
    11  FIFTY PERCENT CUSTODY IN A SHARED CUSTODY ARRANGEMENT;
    12    (II) FULL-TIME STUDENTS UP TO THE AGE OF TWENTY-SIX;
    13    (III) NONWORKING ADULTS IN THE HOUSEHOLD AGES SIXTY AND OLDER; AND
    14    (IV) ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14162-01-5