IC 22-4-2-21: Benefit period

Sec. 21. "Benefit period" with respect to any individual means the fifty-two-consecutive-week period beginning with the first week as of which an insured worker first files an initial claim for determination of his insured status, and thereafter the fifty-two-consecutive-week period beginning with the first week as of which the individual next files an initial claim after the termination of his last preceding benefit period.