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Ohio law allows that 20% of your weekly benefit amount be exempted from any earnings you may receive before a deduction is made. An example of how this is computed appears below. Example: If the weekly benefit amount is $400.00 and weekly earnings are $200.00:
• In 2020, you must have worked at least 20 weeks in covered employment and earned at least $269 in the base period (four out of the last five completed calendar quarters). • You must be unemployed through no fault of your own.
Ohio employers fund benefits by paying contributions to Ohio’s Unemployment Compensation Fund (most private sector employers) or reimbursing that fund (public sector and certain nonprofit employers). A claimant is eligible for benefits proportionally to how much the claimant worked and earned in covered employment.
- On this page
- You should know
- Various types of earnings
- Earnings paid or payable
- You're responsible for reporting all your income
- Your normal weekly earnings
- Choosing the appropriate allocation period
- Vacation pay
- Statutory holidays
- Pensions
•You should know
•Various types of earnings
•Earnings paid or payable
•You're responsible for reporting all your income
•Your normal weekly earnings
•Choosing the appropriate allocation period
Earnings paid or payable at the end of your employment or during your benefit period may affect the amount of benefits you receive. Some earnings paid or payable upon separation can:
•delay the start date of your claim
•delay the 1-week waiting period to serve
•delay the date on which you begin receiving benefits
•reduce the amount of benefits you receive
•extend your benefit period
Earnings are any amount paid or payable that's related to or has originated from employment, such as:
•wages or salary and commissions
•monetary employment benefits, such as:
•vacation pay
•severance pay
•wages in lieu of notice
Earnings are "paid" when:
•you’ve received and accepted the payment. This includes amounts directly deposited to your bank account or used to satisfy a debt of yours
•you’re expecting the payment to be in your possession shortly, usually by the next scheduled pay date
•Examples:
•wages and salary
•vacation pay paid with each pay
You're responsible for reporting:
•any income paid or payable to you
•any benefits, cash or other, received, and
•income that you earn from any self-employment activities
To determine if the amounts or benefits paid or payable are earnings for EI benefit purposes, we must determine the true nature of the payment. To reach this decision, we may ask:
•the amount and type of payment
Some earnings shown on the earnings chart are deducted from your EI benefits at the rate of your normal weekly earnings. Generally, your normal weekly earnings correspond to your regular weekly salary, before deductions, from your employment that paid the earnings. When you receive a weekly wage, the normal weekly earnings are calculated by multipl...
Once it has been determined that earnings have been paid or are payable, the appropriate allocation period must be chosen. When allocating earnings, we consider the following 3 factors:
1.the type of earnings
2.the amount before deductions
3.if the amount was paid for a specific work period, if it was paid by reason of a lay‑off or separation or for some other reason
When the earnings were not paid due to a lay-off or separation, the allocation period is determined based on the type of earnings paid or payable and the reason for payment. For example, earnings paid under the terms of a contract of employment in exchange for services rendered must be allocated over the period during which the services were rendered even if they are paid at a later date. For instance, the wages for the performance of services are payable for the number of hours or days that you worked, meaning the period during which the work was performed.
All earnings paid or payable because of a lay‑off or separation are normally allocated from starting the week of the lay‑off or separation, based on the normal weekly earnings for that employment, no matter the period for which the earnings are supposed to be paid or payable. These earnings include all amounts paid to compensate the worker for the loss of employment, such as:
Vacation pay is employment income and is considered earnings when it's paid or payable. There is, however, an exception when the vacation pay constitutes savings rather than earnings. This is the case when an employer, union or agency acts in trust and the vacation pay is credited to an employee and accumulated in a trust account.
Allocation of vacation pay depends on the reason for which it's paid and not the date when the payment is made. Vacation pay can be paid or payable:
•by reason of a lay-off or separation
•for a plant shut down for general vacation
•for a specific vacation period that coincides with other circumstances
•on an anniversary date
The term "statutory holidays" refers to legal, provincial and territorial holidays designated by the federal, provincial or territorial government. Employers often use the same term to refer to those holidays set out by a custom or by a collective agreement.
Earnings for a statutory holiday are part of the overall earnings from any job. Payment received for a statutory holiday is allocated to the week in which the statutory holiday falls.
A statutory holiday can fall before or after lay-off or separation or during the benefit period. Payment made for specific statutory holidays is, nonetheless, always allocated to the week in which the statutory holiday falls because the reason for the payment is, in fact, your entitlement to the statutory holiday and not by reason of any lay-off or separation.
When the employer and the union agree that a statutory holiday be observed on another day, the earnings paid for that statutory holiday are allocated to the week in which that new day falls, to the extent that such terms are dictated by a custom or a collective agreement. However, if it is shown that the change in statutory holiday was made solely to bypass the EI Act, the earnings will be allocated to the week of the actual statutory holiday.
Example: statutory holidays
You have been receiving EI benefits since September 24, 2023. On November 22, 2023, your former employer pays you $375 for the statutory holidays of December 25 and 26, 2023 and January 1, 2024.
Pension income resulting from any employment is considered earnings for benefit purposes. These include:
•employer pension plans, including employment as a member of the Armed Forces or any police force. This also applies to pensions from employment in another country, whether or not the employment was insurable
•the Canada Pension Plan, and
•the Quebec Pension Plan
However, pension income resulting indirectly from employment does not always constitute earnings. In the following cases, all or part of the pension is not considered to be earnings:
•the pension of an individual who requalifies for EI benefits after the date on which payment of the pension begins, or
For most people, the basic rate for calculating Employment Insurance (EI) benefits is 55% of their average insurable weekly earnings, up to a maximum amount. As of January 1, 2024, the maximum yearly insurable earnings amount is $63,200.
Average Insured Earnings Calculation The weekly benefit rate payable is based on average earnings. Depending on the regional rate of unemployment in the area where the worker resides (see chart below), anywhere between 14 and 22 weeks of earnings are used to calculate the average. The weeks used are the highest weeks of earnings in the 52-
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