(a) For purposes of this section
(1) “Additional benefits” means, benefits financed entirely by the territory and paid, from its account deposited in the Unemployment Trust Fund administered by the Secretary of the United States Treasury, to exhaustees pursuant to this section.
(2) “Additional benefits period” means, a period not within an extended benefit period or other federally financed supplemental benefits program of which claimant is collecting, and begins on October 6, 2002 and ends on January 4, 2002, with a reach back provision to March 10, 2002 for persons who exhausted their regular benefits and the Temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (TEUC) and are still employed.
(3) “Exhaustee means
(A) a person who has received all of his regular compensation payable during the applicable base period; or
(B) a person whose rights to regular compensation have been terminated by reason of the expiration of the benefit year with respect to which such rights existed; or
(C) a person who has exhausted all Temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation.
(b) Additional benefits are payable to persons who
(1) filed an initial (new or additional) claim that was effective during or after the week of March 15, 2001;
(2) have exhausted regular benefits or have no benefit rights due to the expiration of a benefit year ending during or after the week of March 15, 2001;
(3) have no rights to regular or extended benefits under any state or federal law; and
(4) are not receiving benefits under Canadian law.
(c) A person who exhausted all of the regular benefits that were available to the person pursuant to the unemployment compensation law, (including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and ex-service persons or payable under the combined wage program) after March 10, 2002, and before August 30, 2003, shall be eligible for additional benefits.
(d) No person whose benefit year ended prior to March 15, 2001, shall be eligible for Virgin Islands additional benefits.
(e) An exhaustee's weekly benefit amount under the additional benefits award shall be the same as his weekly benefit amount for the parent benefit year.
(f) An exhaustee's additional benefits duration during any one extended period shall be 13 times his weekly benefit amount or 50% of the maximum amount payable to him during his parent benefit year which ever is less.
(g) Only one additional duration award may be established for an exhaustee based on any one, parent benefit year.
(h) Except where covered in this section, all of the eligibility requirements of section 304 of this chapter will apply to the administration of this additional benefit program, in addition that the exhaustee is not subject to a disqualification for normal benefits under any provisions of this chapter of the Unemployment Insurance Act.
(i) The additional benefits shall be retroactive from the date of enactment of this section to the date of filing of the respective eligible claimant's claim provided that the claimant is not presently collecting any other unemployment benefits.
(j) The provisions of this section shall not be effective after August 30, 2003, and no new claims shall be payable under the provisions of this section.
(k) No employer's account shall be charged for any additional benefits charges.