---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 615.4"
title: "20"
number: "615.4"
heading: "Eligibility requirements for Extended Benefits."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/615.4"
---

# §615.4. Eligibility requirements for Extended Benefits.

- (a) **General.** An individual is entitled to Extended Benefits for a week of unemployment which begins in the individual's eligibility period if, with respect to such week, the individual is an exhaustee as defined in [§ 615.5](/cfr/20/615.5.md), files a timely claim for Extended Benefits, and satisfies the pertinent requirements of the applicable State law which are consistent with EUCA and this part.
- (b) **Qualifying for Extended Benefits.** The State law shall specify whether an individual qualifies for Extended Benefits by earnings and employment in the base period for the individual's applicable benefit year as required by [section 202(a)(5)](/cfr/20/202.md?p=a-5) of EUCA, (and if it does not also apply this requirement to the payment of sharable regular benefits, the State will not be entitled to a payment under [§ 615.14](/cfr/20/615.14.md)), as follows:
  - (1) One and one-half times the high quarter wages; or
  - (2) Forty times the most recent weekly benefit amount, and if this alternative is adopted, it shall use the weekly benefit amount (including dependents' allowances) payable for a week of total unemployment (before any reduction because of earnings, pensions or other requirements) which applied to the most recent week of regular benefits; or
  - (3) Twenty weeks of full-time insured employment, and if this alternative is adopted, the term “full-time” shall have the meaning provided by the State law.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 26 U.S.C. 7805; 26 U.S.C. 1102; Secretary's Order No. 6-10.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 27937, July 25, 1988, unless otherwise noted.