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Assembly Bill A9555

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Extends the duration of unemployment insurance benefits

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2025-A9555 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9383
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §590, Lab L

2025-A9555 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that unemployment insurance benefits shall not be paid in an amount greater than thirty times the claimant's weekly benefit rate in any benefit year, subject to certain exceptions.

2025-A9555 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9555
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. VALDEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN  ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to extending the duration of
   unemployment insurance benefits
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 4 of section 590 of the labor law, as amended
 by chapter 277 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   4. Duration. Benefits shall not be paid  in  an  amount  greater  than
 [twenty-six]  THIRTY  times  the  claimant's  weekly benefit rate in any
 benefit year, except as provided in section six hundred one and subdivi-
 sion two of section five hundred ninety-nine of this [chapter] TITLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14203-01-5

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