The date and nature of your illness, injury, disability, or pregnancy.

You will need to provide documentation to substantiate: Call a TWC Tele-Center at 80 to ask if you qualify for an ABP. To be eligible, you must have filed your initial claim no later than 24 months after the date that the illness, injury, disability, or pregnancy began. The ABP uses wages paid before the illness or injury. You may be able to use an alternate base period (APB) if you were out of work for at least seven weeks in one base-period quarter because of a medically verifiable illness, injury, disability, or pregnancy.

If you qualified for benefits on a prior claim, you must have earned six times your new weekly benefit amount since that time.

Your total base period wages are at least 37 times your weekly benefit amount.

You have wages in more than one of the four base period calendar quarters.

To have a payable claim, you must meet all of the following requirements: If you do not have enough wages from employment in the base period, TWC cannot pay you benefits. The chart below can help you determine your base period. The effective date is the Sunday of the week in which you apply. We do not use the quarter in which you file or the quarter before that we use the one-year period before those two quarters. Your base period is the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters before the effective date of your initial claim.

If you worked in more than one state, see If You Earned Wages in More than One State below.

We use the taxable wages, earned in Texas, your employer(s) have reported paying you during your base period to calculate your benefits. Your past wages are one of the eligibility requirements and the basis of your potential unemployment benefit amounts. You must meet all requirements in each of these three areas to qualify for unemployment benefits. TWC evaluates your unemployment benefits claim based on:

This page provides information on the eligibility requirements for unemployment benefits and answers to common questions regarding various special circumstances.

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