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Iowan's Jobless and Injury Benefits
Increase
DES MOINES, IA – Maximum weekly benefits paid to jobless Iowans and to
workers injured on the job will increase July 1, 2018, announced Iowa Workforce
Development.
An
increase in wages covered by unemployment insurance triggered the rise in
benefits. The average annual wage for insured Iowa workers increased to $45,877.31
in 2017, up from $44,722.93 the previous year.
The
new benefit payment schedules apply to people who file new unemployment
insurance claims on or after July 1, 2018, and to workers injured on or after
July 1, 2018.
Under Iowa law, the number of
people covered by unemployment insurance and their gross wages are primary
elements of a formula Iowa Workforce Development uses each year to compute
maximum and minimum benefit amounts paid to jobless workers. The new rates are:
Iowa Workforce Development officials noted
that about half of those eligible for unemployment insurance benefits have
enough earnings to qualify for the maximum benefit. The 2019 taxable wage base
will be $30,600.
Beginning July 1,
the workers’ compensation maximum weekly benefit for temporary total
disability, healing period, permanent total disability and death will rise to
$1,765. For permanent partial disability, the weekly maximum will be $1,623.
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www.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov
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