On $70,000 a year in Indiana, about $390 in weekly benefits.

What shapes the award.

Weekly range

$37 to $390. Wage requirements still apply.

Duration

Up to 26 weeks under this program. The modeled benefit balance is $10,140.

Dependents

No dependents allowance in this modeled regular benefit.

Base period

First four of the last five completed calendar quarters. No alternate period is modeled here. Understand the quarters.

Alternate-period detail

No ordinary most-recent-four-quarter alternate period is modeled. A special injury or workers’ compensation lookback requires DWD to select the applicable quarters.

Reporting work

Report gross wages for the Sunday-Saturday week earned, before payday. The first $100 is ignored and excess wages reduce benefits dollar for dollar, but gross wages must remain below the full weekly rate. Enter actual hours and the normal schedule agreed with your regular employer; hours must be strictly lower. A regular employer is one you served during the past 26 weeks. Agreed schedule fluctuations, on-call work, commissions, special part-time classifications, self-employment and other income need DWD review. This input models ordinary gross work wages only; do not subtract taxes.

Covered-wage requirements

Covered base-period wages must total at least $4,200, include at least $2,500 in the chronological last two quarters, and reach 1.5 times the highest quarter. The ordinary formula is 47% of actual total wages /52, rounded down, with a $37-$390 range. DWD decides covered work, special part-time classifications and repeat-claim eligibility.

Duration conditions

The ordinary regular balance is the lesser of twenty-six weekly rates or 28% of actual base-period wages, rounded down. The 47%-of-annual-average formula makes twenty-six rates the smaller limit in the ordinary cases modeled here. Up to twenty-six full-rate weeks are available within the 52-week benefit year; partial payments can use the balance more slowly.

Work registration

Uplink creates an Indiana Career Connect account automatically. Complete the work-registration profile and resume within ten days, unless DWD confirms an applicable waiver. Follow job-service and RESEA notices and keep contact details current.

Repeat benefit years

A new benefit year needs its own monetary determination and qualifying intervening covered work. Ask DWD to confirm current repeat-claim requirements before using overlapping wages. This estimator does not establish intervening work, and the separate requalification rule following specified denials is not used as a repeat-claim test.

Before you count on it.

• Covered wages and employment are required.
• This checks only the modeled monetary rules. The agency also checks your employment history and other eligibility conditions.
• Separation, availability, work search and certification can affect payment.
• Tax withholding, offsets and agency adjustments can change the amount received.

This is a wage calculation and an informational screen. Your agency or insurer decides your claim.

Keeping the claim eligible.

Complete at least two valid work-search activities each claimed week and retain the log for six months. DWD must confirm waivers, such as approved training, union hiring-hall status or a qualifying recall within sixty days. Attend required RESEA appointments when selected.

Taxes and the amount received.

Benefits may be subject to federal, state and local tax. The current claimant handbook describes an initial choice to withhold 10% federal and 4% state tax, totaling 14%; this is a benefit-withholding choice, not an estimate of your final tax liability. Confirm current Uplink options with DWD. Form 1099-G is issued in late January. This estimator shows gross benefits before withholding or other offsets.