IC 22-4-14-5: Wage credits

Sec. 5. An insured worker may not receive benefits in a benefit year unless:

(1) after the beginning of the immediately preceding benefit year during which the individual received benefits, the individual:

(A) performed insured work;

(B) earned remuneration in employment in at least each of eight (8) weeks; and

(C) earned remuneration equal to or exceeding the product of the individual's weekly benefit amount multiplied by eight (8);

(2) the individual has established, after the last day of the individual's last base period, if any, wage credits (as defined in IC 22-4-4-3 and within the meaning of wages under IC 22-4-22-3) equal to at least one and five-tenths (1.5) times the wages paid to the individual in the calendar quarter in which the individual's wages were highest; and

(3) the individual has established wage credits in the last two (2) calendar quarters of the individual's base period in a total amount of not less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) and a total amount in the four (4) calendar quarters of the individual's base period of not less than four thousand two hundred dollars ($4,200).