2 Responses to “How much would I get for unemployment if I made $40000 last year?”

1. Non-Redneck

   Sorry to hear that you lost your job. You can apply online now.

   See

   But to answer your question

   you will probably get $378 per week (which is taxable). My friend who got laid off said they mail you a Visa debit card now (I can’t recall the bank) and put money on it. If you want the cash, you need to go to the bank’s ATM and withdraw it.

   My answer is from the Texas Workforce Commission’s web site.

   “To establish a payable claim, you must have received enough wages to meet the requirements. We use the wages paid to you during a recent 12-month period, called the base period, to calculate your benefit amounts. The base period is the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters before you filed your claim. (Calendar quarters are three-month periods beginning with January, April, July, or October.) This means that when we calculate benefits we can’t use earnings in the calendar quarter in which you filed your claim, or the quarter just before that. We base your weekly benefit amount on the highest quarter earnings in your base period. We divide that high quarter’s total earnings by 25 to get your weekly benefit amount. We may have to change this amount to be inside the allowed range of benefit amounts in Texas. Your maximum, or total, benefit amount is the smaller of 26 times the weekly amount, or 27% of all your wages in the base period. Your weekly benefit amount will be between $57 and $378 depending upon the wages you earned.”

   December 13th, 2008 | 7:40 pm
2. Doctor Deth

   I don’t know if any state pays more than half - and that stops at about your salary level, plus unemployment benefits are taxable so you need to have taxes withheld or put aside money for taxes

   December 13th, 2008 | 9:59 pm

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