What is unemployment compensation?
The Texas law provides that under certain conditions weekly payments of money may be made to unemployed individuals from an unemployment compensation fund contributed to by employers subject to unemployment taxes or reimbursements under the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act (TUCA) which is Title 4, Subtitle A of the Texas Labor Code. Who Can Qualify for Benefits? An unemployed individual can qualify for benefits if during that claimant’s Base Period (See What Is A Base Period? explanation below) sufficient wage credits were earned by that claimant from employers covered by the Act on which the claim may be established in accordance with the Act (See How Are Regular Benefits Determined?). Additionally, if you qualified for benefits on a prior claim, you must have earned 6 times your current computed Weekly Benefit Amount since then. What is a Base Period? A base period is the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the date of an initial claim for
