The Arizona House of Representatives on June 12 voted against a bill 29-31 that would have indexed the length of unemployment insurance benefits to the state’s unemployment rate. During times when the unemployment rate was at or below 5%, unemployed workers would have been able to collect a maximum of 12 weeks of benefits under the bill. The bill proposed capping the maximum benefit length at 20 weeks during times when the unemployment rate was more than 8.5%.
Arizona’s current maximum benefit length is 24 weeks if the unemployment insurance rate is less than 5% and 26 weeks if the jobless rate is 5% or more.
The Arizona State Senate previously advanced the indexing bill 16-14 on March 2.
