MN SF47

Establishes a Mining and Related Industry Additional Unemployment Benefits Program providing extended benefits from Minnesota's unemployment insurance trust fund for workers laid off from iron ore mining employers or their suppliers.

Eligible applicants must have 50 percent or greater of wage credits from iron ore mining employers, exhausted maximum state or federal unemployment benefits, and meet regular unemployment benefit requirements through May 1, 2021.

Weekly benefit amounts equal the regular unemployment benefit amount on the original benefit account, with a maximum of 26 weeks of additional payments available.

Applicants who qualify for a new regular benefit account must apply for it and receive whichever benefits are higher; those receiving federal Trade Readjustment Assistance or other federal unemployment benefits are ineligible.

Benefits paid under this program are not charged to employers' future tax rates or government/nonprofit reimbursing accounts, and the program becomes effective the day after final enactment.