Sec. 31-234. Dependency allowances.
Sec. 31-234. Dependency allowances. Each individual who is eligible to receive
benefits for unemployment with respect to any week shall be paid with respect to such
week a dependency allowance of fifteen dollars for such individual's nonworking
spouse, as defined by regulation, living in the same household with such individual
and for each of such individual's children or stepchildren who at the beginning of the
individual's current benefit year were being wholly or mainly supported by such individual and were under eighteen years of age or under twenty-one years of age and in full-time attendance in a secondary school, a technical school, a college, or state accredited
job training program, or who at the beginning of the individual's benefit year were
mentally or physically handicapped and because of such handicap were being wholly
or mainly supported by such individual, but in no event shall such allowances exceed
the number of whole dollars in one hundred per cent of the total unemployment benefit
rate of such individual or be paid with respect to more than five dependents. If the
individual acquires any additional dependents in the course of a benefit year, the dependency allowance shall be adjusted accordingly during the next following complete calendar week. Dependency allowances shall be in addition to the unemployment benefits
otherwise payable and shall not be considered part of an individual's total unemployment
benefit rate but shall be counted in the amount of maximum benefits provided in section
31-232a and no dependency allowance shall be payable with respect to any week unless
an unemployment benefit is also payable with respect to such week. If both a husband
and a wife receive benefits with respect to a week of unemployment, neither shall be
entitled to a dependency allowance with respect to the other and only one of them shall
be entitled to a dependency allowance with respect to any child or stepchild.
(1949 Rev., S. 7506; 1957, P.A. 464, S. 4; February, 1965, P.A. 550, S. 3; 1967, P.A. 790, S. 12; 1971, P.A. 341; P.A.
75-135; P.A. 77-426, S. 10, 19; P.A. 80-373, S. 1, 3; P.A. 99-154; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1, S. 44, 51.)
History: 1965 act increased dependency allowance from $4 to $5 and maximum age of dependents from 16 to 17; 1967
act allowed consideration of nonworking spouse living in same household as dependent, increased maximum age of children
to 18 and specified that where both spouses receive benefits neither qualifies as a dependent; 1971 act authorized adjustment
of dependency allowance if additional dependents are acquired; P.A. 75-135 authorized consideration of children under
21 as dependents if in full-time attendance in secondary or technical school, college or job training program; P.A. 77-426
deleted reference to Sec. 31-231b; P.A. 80-373 increased dependency allowance to $10 and limited payments to no more
than five dependents; P.A. 99-154 increased weekly dependency allowance from $10 to $15 and raised dependency allowance cap from 50% to 00% of claimant's weekly benefit rate; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1 made provisions of P.A. 99-154
effective for benefit years commencing on or after October 3, 1999, effective July 1, 1999.