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120 PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW
((a) amended Nov. 3, 2016, P.L.1100, No.144)
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120 PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW
((a) amended Nov. 3, 2016, P.L.1100, No.144)
(b) The "highest quarterly wages" of an employe shall be the total wages
(computed to the nearest dollar) which were paid to such employe in that
calendar quarter in which such total wages were highest during the base
year.
(c) If an otherwise eligible employe has base year wages in an amount
equal to or in excess of the amount of qualifying wages appearing in
Part C of the Table Specified for the Determination of Rate and Amount
of Benefits on the line on which in Part B there appears his weekly
benefit rate, as determined under subsection (a) of this section, and had
eighteen (18) or more credit weeks during his base year, he shall be
entitled during his benefit year to the amount appearing in Part B on
said line multiplied by the number of credit weeks during his base year,
up to a maximum of twenty-six (26). Notwithstanding any other
provision of this act, any employe with less than eighteen (18) credit
weeks during the employe's base year shall be ineligible to receive any
amount of compensation.
((c) amended June 12, 2012, P.L.577, No.60)
(d) (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section each eligible
employe who is unemployed with respect to any week ending
subsequent to July 1, 1980 shall be paid, with respect to such week,
compensation in an amount equal to his weekly benefit rate less the
total of
(i) the remuneration, if any, paid or payable to him with respect to
such week for services performed which is in excess of his partial
benefit credit,
(ii) vacation pay, if any, which is in excess of his partial benefit
credit, except when paid to an employe who is permanently or
indefinitely separated from his employment and
(iii) the amount of severance pay that is attributed to the week.
(1.1) For purposes of clause (1)(iii), all of the following apply:
(i) "Severance pay" means one or more payments made by an
employer to an employe on account of separation from the