H.F. No. 5 Summary

• Authorizes additional unemployment insurance benefits paid from the Minnesota unemployment insurance trust fund for workers laid off from iron ore mining employers or employers providing goods/services to iron ore mining operations.

• Eligible applicants must have 50 percent or greater wage credits from iron ore mining industry employers, exhausted all available state or federal unemployment benefits, and meet standard regular unemployment benefit requirements.

• Provides maximum additional benefits of 26 weeks of payments at the applicant's weekly benefit rate, available through the week ending May 1, 2021.

• Benefits paid under this program do not count toward future unemployment insurance tax rates for taxpaying employers and are not charged to government or nonprofit employer reimbursing accounts.

• Applicants receiving federal unemployment benefits, including Trade Readjustment Assistance, are ineligible for these additional mining industry benefits.