{"id":2313,"date":"2025-10-29T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:08:52","slug":"new-york-state-increases-weekly-unemployment-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/10\/29\/new-york-state-increases-weekly-unemployment-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Increases Weekly Unemployment Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Unemployed-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1833\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Unemployed-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Unemployed-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Unemployed-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>New York State has raised the maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefit by almost 73%, increasing it from $504 per week to $869 per week. According to the New York Department of Labor (NY DOL), benefits will increase immediately. 77% of benefit recipients will receive the new maximum, while another 28% of current recipients will see their weekly benefits rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, more New Yorkers may become eligible for unemployment insurance benefits.&nbsp;For instance, full-time employees whose weekly hours drop below 30 hours per week may now qualify for partial unemployment insurance benefits if their weekly earnings are below the new $869 maximum benefit entitlement. Also, individuals who are totally unemployed but take on part-time work may remain eligible for partial benefits if their weekly earnings remain less than $869 per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Littler:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/news-analysis\/asap\/new-york-state-drastically-increases-maximum-weekly-unemployment-insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York State Drastically Increases the Maximum Weekly Unemployment Insurance Benefit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York State has raised the maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefit by almost 73%, increasing it from $504 per week to $869 per week. According to the New York Department of Labor (NY DOL), benefits will increase immediately. 77% of benefit recipients will receive the new maximum, while another 28% of current recipients will see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[59,283,285],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-new-york","tag-unemployment-benefit","tag-unemployment-insurance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}