INITIAL CLAIM - ADDITIONAL INITIAL CLAIM - REOPENED CLAIM - CONTINUED CLAIM SERIES.
A. “Initial claim” means a new claim application submitted by a claimant to establish a benefit year for unemployment insurance benefits.
B. “Additional initial claim” means a claim application which reactivates a claim during an existing benefit year and certifies to a period of employment which occurred subsequent to the date of the filing of the last initial, additional or reopened claim.
C. "Reopened claim" means a claim application which reactivates a claim during an existing benefit year when a claimant stopped filing for benefits before his or her claim was exhausted, but in which there occurred no intervening employment from the date of the filing of the last initial, additional or reopened claim.
D. "Continued claim series" means an uninterrupted series of weekly claims filed by a claimant during the benefit year.
Added by Laws 2004, c. 102, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2004. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 132, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.