Definitions Relating to Extended Benefits, Eligibility for Extended Benefits, How to Apply for Extended Benefits

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Agency for Workforce Innovation

Rule No.: RULE TITLE
60BB-3.0261: Definitions Relating to Extended Benefits
60BB-3.0262: Eligibility for Extended Benefits
60BB-3.0263: How to Apply for Extended Benefits

NOTICE OF CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 36 No. 35, September 3, 2010 issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.

Proposed Rules 60BB-3.0261, 60BB-3.0262, and 60BB-3.0263, Florida Administrative Code, and the forms incorporated by reference into these proposed rules were under review by the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee. On September 17, 2010, the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee directed the attention of the Agency for Workforce attention to a problem with the language in one of the forms incorporated by reference into Proposed Rule 60BB-3.0262, to-wit: EB BRI (7/10), Extended Benefits Benefit Rights Information. The language at issue is: “Failure to meet the EB work search requirements or to accept suitable work in any given week will result in a denial of further benefits until you have worked in at least four (4) different weeks and earned four (4) times your weekly benefit amount.”

The Agency has amended this form in response to the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee’s comments. Now the language of EB BRI (9/10), Extended Benefits Benefit Rights Information reads as follows: “Failure to apply for, or accept an offer of, suitable work in any given week will result in a denial of further benefits until you have worked in at least four (4) different weeks and earned seventeen (17) times your weekly benefit amount. Failure to furnish tangible evidence of a systematic and sustained effort to find work will result in a denial of further benefits until you have worked in at least four (4) different weeks and earned four (4) times your weekly benefit amount.”

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: John R. Perry, Assistant General Counsel, Agency for Workforce Innovation, Office of General Counsel, 107 East Madison Street, MSC 110, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-4128, [phone], fax [phone], email [e-mail].