Benefits Reduced by Other Remuneration

PURPOSE: This rule provides for reporting and defines methods of reducing benefits based on claimant’s receipt of remuneration other than wages. This rule implements section 288.040, RSMo. (1) Any remuneration in the form of compensation for temporary partial disability and any pension paid in whole or in part from funds furnished by an employing unit, to the extent that the pension is provided from funds not provided by the claimant, which is claimed, awarded or received, shall be reported by the claimant upon making claim for unemployment benefits. (2) The weekly equivalent of any monthly payment shall be twenty-three percent (23%) of the amount of the monthly payment or forty-six percent (46%) of the amount of any semimonthly payment. (3) Whenever the claimant is otherwise eligible, no unemployment benefits shall be denied or reduced for any week of unemployment ending prior to the date of his/her receipt of the final decision allowing any payment which the claimant is required by this rule to report to the division. AUTHORITY: section 288.220, RSMo 1994.* This rule was previously known as regulation no. 5. Original rule filed Sept. 30, 1946, effective Oct. 10, 1946. Amended: Filed June 20, 1951, effective July 1, 1951. Amended: Filed Aug. 1, 1957, effective Aug. 29, 1957. Amended: Filed Oct. 1, 1965, effective Oct. 13, 1965. Amended: Filed Oct. 17, 1967, effective Oct. 27, 1967. Amended: Filed Sept. 30, 1969, effective Oct. 10, 1969. Amended: Filed Nov. 21, 1975, effective Dec. 1, 1975. Emergency amendment filed July 12, 1984, effective Aug. 13, 1984, expired Dec. 10, 1984. Amended: Filed July 12, 1984, effective Oct. 11, 1984. Amended: Filed Aug. 31, 1990, effective Dec. 31, 1990. *Original authority: 288.220, RSMo 1951, amended 1955, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1971.