MN SF1006

Establishes an Iron Ore Mining and Related Industry Extended Unemployment Benefits Program providing extended benefits from the Minnesota unemployment insurance trust fund to workers laid off due to lack of work after March 1, 2015, from iron ore mining employers or employers providing goods or services to iron mining operators.

Extends benefits through the week ending June 25, 2017, to applicants who established a benefit account with majority wage credits from iron mining industry employers and exhausted maximum regular unemployment benefits.

Provides up to 26 weeks of extended unemployment benefits at the same weekly rate as regular unemployment benefits on the original benefit account.

Requires applicants who qualify for a new regular benefit account to use that account if the weekly benefit amount is equal to or higher than the extended benefit amount, with extended benefits available only after exhausting the new account.

Prohibits extended benefits from being used to calculate future unemployment tax rates or charged to government or nonprofit employer reimbursing accounts, and makes applicants eligible for federal Trade Readjustment Allowance benefits ineligible for these extended benefits.