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This Act provides post-pandemic related relief to both claimants receiving unemployment benefits and employers who are assessed unemployment taxes. This bill will increase the maximum weekly benefit amount payable to claimants seeking unemployment compensation benefits from the Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance from $400.00 a week to $450.00 a week. The funds necessary to pay the…
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This Act provides post-pandemic related relief to both claimants receiving unemployment benefits and employers who are assessed unemployment taxes. This bill will increase the maximum weekly benefit amount payable to claimants seeking unemployment compensation benefits from the Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance from $400.00 a week to $450.00 a week. The funds necessary to pay the increased weekly benefit amounts will be paid from the Unemployment Trust Fund. Delaware currently pays unemployment claimants less per week in benefits than claimants are paid in each neighboring state. The maximum weekly benefit amount has not changed since 2019. The Governor’s agreement to allow federal pandemic funds to be used to replace the funds in the Unemployment Trust Fund that were depleted from the surge of pandemic related claims has made the Unemployment Trust Fund sufficiently solvent so as to allow the Department to offer unemployment tax relief measures to Delaware employers for a one-year period during calendar year 2023, at a time when employers continue to face post-pandemic rising economic challenges, supply chain problems, and difficultly in staffing. This Act will provide temporary relief to employers who pay unemployment tax assessments by reducing the new employer tax rates, reducing or holding constant overall employer tax rates, and reducing the maximum earned rate. This Act will also temporarily simplify the tax rate schedules that are used to calculate unemployment assessments paid by employers. The Department estimates that these unemployment tax assessment changes will reduce the tax obligation of employers an estimated $50 million in 2023. The various tax assessment relief provisions set forth in Sections 2 and 3 of this Act are retroactive to January 1, 2023 and are intended to be in effect for the full calendar year 2023.
Every action
11 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.
CommitteeIntroduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House · House Labor
CommitteeReported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits · House Labor
CommitteeReported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits · House Labor
CommitteeReported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits · House Labor
HousePassed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT39–0 vote
CommitteeAssigned to Labor Committee in Senate · Senate Labor
CommitteeReported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 5 Favorable · Senate Labor
SenateLaid On Table in Senate
SenateLifted From Table in Senate
SenatePassed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 4 NO 1 ABSENT16–4 vote
GovernorSigned by Governor
Roll calls
2 recorded votes: 2 on the floor, 0 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT · Full House