jwhittaker@post-journal.com
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has come up with a new way to offer a partial unemployment claim that Republicans in the state Legislature may agree with.
Legislation to be submitted with the Executive Budget will permanently enact a partial unemployment program to incentivize unemployed New Yorkers to assume a part-time job as they search for full-time work, with a revised calculation made possible by technological improvements currently under way.
Under current law, unemployed New Yorkers’ weekly benefits are reduced by 25% for each day an individual works, regardless of the hours worked. Anyone who worked four or more days even if they only worked one hour per day would have to forfeit their entire weekly benefit.