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How TWC Calculates Your Benefit Amounts

Published: April 21, 2020, 2:48 p.m.

b'How TWC Calculates Your Benefit Amounts
We calculate your weekly benefit amount (WBA) by finding
the base-period quarter with the highest total wages. Divide
that number by 25 and round to the nearest dollar. It cannot
exceed the maximum allowed by law, which is on your benefit
statement.
Your maximum benefit amount (MBA) is the lesser of 26 times your weekly amount or
27 percent of all your wages in the base period.
To qualify:
\\u25a0 Y our total base-period wages must equal 37 times your WBA.
\\u25a0 You must have wages in at least two of the four quarters.
\\u25a0 If you qualified on a prior claim, you must have earned six times your new WBA
since your last claim.'