2006 Utah Code - 35A-4-404 — Eligibility for benefits after receiving workers\' compensation or occupational disease compensation.

     35A-4-404.   Eligibility for benefits after receiving workers' compensation or occupational disease compensation.
     (1) Notwithstanding any requirements involving base periods or other benefit compensational factors provided for under this chapter a person who has had a continuous period of sickness or injury for which he was compensated under the workers' compensation or the occupational disease laws of this state or under federal law shall, if he is otherwise eligible, thereafter be entitled to receive the unemployment compensation benefits he would have been entitled to receive under the law and regulations based on his potential eligibility at the time of his last employment.
     (2) Benefit rights shall not be preserved under this section unless the individual:
     (a) files a claim for benefits with respect to a week no later than 90 days after the end of the continuous period of sickness or injury; and
     (b) files the claim with respect to a week within the 36-month period immediately following the commencement of such period of sickness or injury.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 240, 1996 General Session