2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 41 - Labor and Employment
CHAPTER 35 - EMPLOYMENT AND WORKFORCE - BENEFITS AND CLAIMS THEREFOR
Section 41-35-40. Weekly benefit amount.
An insured worker's weekly benefit amount is fifty percent of his weekly average wage, as defined in Section 41-27-140, and the weekly benefit amount, if not a multiple of one dollar, must be computed to the next lower multiple of one dollar. However, no insured worker's weekly benefit amount may be less than forty-two dollars nor greater than sixty-six and two-thirds percent of the statewide average weekly wage most recently computed before the beginning of the individual's benefit year.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 68-104; 1952 Code Section 68-104; 1942 Code Section 7035-83; 1936 (39) 1716; 1939 (41) 487; 1941 (42) 369; 1945 (44) 375; 1948 (45) 1762; 1955 (49) 480; 1961 (52) 453; 1973 (58) 412; 1983 Act No. 62 Section 5; 2010 Act No. 234, Section 4, eff January 1, 2011.
Effect of Amendment
The 2010 amendment substituted "forty-two dollars" for "twenty dollars" in the second sentence.
