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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56087</law_id><section_number>60.2-604</section_number><catch_line>Reduction of benefit amount by amount of pension</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="60.2">Unemployment Compensation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Benefits</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Benefit Computation</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The weekly benefit amount payable to an individual for any week which begins in a period for which such individual is receiving a governmental or other pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or any other similar periodic payment under a plan maintained or contributed to by a base period or chargeable employer based on the previous work of such individual, including payments received by such individual in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Compensation for total incapacity; computation of average wage; exclusion of AmeriCorps members, certain Food Stamp Employment and Training Program participants, and certain Temporary Assistance for Needy Families participants" href="/65.2-500/">65.2-500</a> or <a class="law" title="Compensation for partial incapacity; exclusion of AmeriCorps members, certain Food Stamp Employment and Training Program participants, and certain Temporary Assistance for Needy Families participants" href="/65.2-502/">65.2-502</a>, shall be reduced, but not below zero, by an amount equal to the amount of such pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or other payment, which is reasonably attributable to such week; however, in consideration of the employee&#x2019;s contributions thereto, the weekly benefit amount payable to an individual for any week shall not be reduced by any amount of Social Security Act or Railroad Retirement Act retirement benefits received by such individual and attributable to such week.</p></section></text><history>1977, c. 330, &#xA7; 60.1-48.1; 1978, c. 269; 1986, c. 480; 1987, c. 3; 2003, cc. 534, 555; 2005, c. 1; 2011, cc. 748, 751.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
