TIME LIMITATIONS ON TRADE READJUSTMENT ALLOWANCES.

SEC 324. TIME LIMITATIONS ON TRADE READJUSTMENT ALLOWANCES. (a) Payment of trade readjustment allowances shall not be made to an adversely affected worker for more than 52 weeks, except, that, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor— (1) such payments may be made for not more than 26 additional weeks to an adversely affected worker to assist him to complete training approved by the Secretary of Labor, or (2) such payments shall be made for not more than 13 additional weeks to an adversely affected worker who had reached his 60th birthday on or before the date of total or partial separation, (b) Except for a payment made for an additional week specified in subsection (a), a trade readjustment allowance shall not be paid for a week of unemployment beginning more than 2 years after the beginning of the appropriate week. A trade readjustment allowance shall not be paid for any additional week specified in subsection (a) if such week begins more than 3 years after the beginning of the appropriate week. The appropriate week for a totally separated worker is the week of his most recent total separation. The appropriate week for a partially separated worker is the week in respect of which he first receives a trade readjustment allowance following his most recent partial separation.