{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-341.090","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 341.090","heading":"Base period, extended base period, benefit year, and base-period wages.","body":"As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:\n(1) \"Base period\" means the first four (4) of the last five (5) completed calendar\nquarters immediately preceding the first day of a worker's benefit year. However, if\nan individual lacks sufficient base-period wages because of a job-related injury, and\nhe has received or was eligible to receive workers' compensation, upon written\napplication by the claimant an extended base period will be substituted for the\ncurrent base period on a quarter-by-quarter basis as needed to establish a valid claim\nor to increase the benefit rate of a claim if:\n(a) The individual did not earn wages because of a job -related injury for at least\nseven (7) weeks of each base period quarter to be substituted by a n extended\nbase period quarter;\n(b) No later than one (1) month prior to the expiration of workers' compensation\nbenefits, the employer or carrier shall inform, orally and in writing, all\nrecipients of their potential eligibility for unemployment insurance , and also\nprovide a statement verifying the individual's eligibility for workers'\ncompensation; and\n(c) A claim for unemployment insurance compensation is filed no later than the\nfourth week of unemployment after the end of the period of injury\ncompensated or eligible to be compensated by workers' compensation;\n(2) \"Extended base period\" means the four (4) quarters prior to the claimant's base\nperiod. These four (4) quarters may be substituted for base -period quarters on a\nquarter-for-quarter basis in orde r to establish a valid claim or increase the benefit\nrate of a valid claim regardless of whether the wages have been used to establish a\nprior claim, except wages transferred to or from another state under a combined\nwage agreement will be excluded if used in a prior claim. Benefits paid on the basis\nof an extended base period, which would not otherwise be payable, shall be charged\nto the pooled account if the chargeable employer is a contributing employer. If the\nchargeable employer is a reimbursing employ er, benefits shall be billed to his\nreimbursing account;\n(3) \"Benefit year\" for any worker means the fifty -two (52) week period beginning with\nthe first day of the week with respect to which he first requests a determination\nwhich establishes his status as a fully insured worker after the termination of his last\npreceding benefit year, if any, except that the last preceding benefit year shall be a\nfifty-three (53) week period if fifty -two (52) weeks would result in the overlapping\nof any calendar quarter of  the base period of the new benefit year with the same\ncalendar quarter of the base period of the previous benefit year. As used in this\nsubsection, a worker shall be considered as having insured status, without regard to\nany other provision of this chapte r, if at the time of his request he has satisfied the\nconditions required under KRS 341.350(6); and\n(4) \"Base-period wages\" means the wages paid to a worker during his base period by\nsubject employers for covered employment. The secretary, upon request of the\nemployee, with respect to this subsection, shall consider wages payable to mean\nwages paid in order to prevent inequities caused by employer failure to meet a\nregularly scheduled payday. Lump -sum payments deemed to be wages under this\nchapter shall be reallocated to periods covered by the payments.","path":["KRS Chapter 341"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=32243","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:58:28Z","sha256":"fbc26c1df4d2ebb2d3584e6008070731e3e6aa7322ad6c94e262a4f66c17278c","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-341.080","next":"us-ky/krs-341.092"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}