2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 52 - Workers' Compensation
Article 3 - Occupational Disease Disablement
Section 52-3-60 - Offset of unemployment compensation benefits.

Universal Citation: NM Stat § 52-3-60 (2019)

A. No total disablement benefits shall be payable under the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law for any weeks in which the disabled employee has received or is receiving unemployment compensation benefits, except as provided in this section.

B. If an employee is entitled to receive unemployment compensation benefits and would otherwise be entitled to receive total disablement benefits, the unemployment compensation benefits shall be primary, and the total disablement benefits shall be supplemental only, and the sum of the two benefits shall not exceed the amount of total disablement benefits that would otherwise be payable.

History: 1978 Comp., § 52-3-60, enacted by Laws 1987, ch. 235, § 44.

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