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| basic concepts |
benefit periods |
cancellation |
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Summary:
A new benefit period could have been established on February 12, 2006 but the claimant only had 574 hours of insurable employment - he needed 595 hours. His request to cancel his renewal claim of Octobre 2005 in order to establish a new benefit period from October 16, 2005 was refused by the Commission but granted by the Board of Referees. The claimant would only have needed 525 hours of insurable employment to establish a benefit period in October. "The Commission could not know how a change in the unemployment rate would affect the determination of the number of insurable hours required by the claimant to qualify for benefits or the number of benefit weeks to which a person is entitled."
