Section 421.51 - “Benefits” and “average weekly wage” defined. - Michigan Statutes

MICHIGAN EMPLOYMENT SECURITY ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 1 of 1936 (Ex. Sess.)

421.51 “Benefits” and “average weekly wage” defined.

Sec. 51.

“Benefits” means the money payments payable to an eligible and qualified individual, as provided in this act, with respect to unemployment.

For benefit years established before the conversion date prescribed in section 75, an individual's “average weekly wage”, with respect to a base period employer, shall be the amount determined by dividing his or her total wages for credit weeks earned from that employer by the number of such credit weeks.

History: 1936, Ex. Sess., Act 1, Imd. Eff. Dec. 24, 1936 ;-- Am. 1947, Act 360, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1947 ;-- CL 1948, 421.51 ;-- Am. 1951, Act 251, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1951 ;-- Am. 1994, Act 162, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1994