                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BENEFIT YEAR (§ 60.2-206)

&#8220;Benefit year&#8221; with respect to any individual means a period of
fifty-two consecutive weeks beginning with the first day of the week in which an
individual files a new valid claim for benefits except that the benefit year
shall be fifty-three weeks if filing of a new valid claim would result in
overlapping any quarter of the base period of a previously filed new claim. An
initial claim for benefits filed in accordance with regulations prescribed by
the Commission under the provisions of this title shall be deemed to be a valid
claim within the purposes of this definition if the individual has been paid
wages in his base period sufficient to make him eligible for benefits under the
provisions of Chapter 6 (§ 60.2-600 et seq.) of this title.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 60-8.1; 1956, c. 440; 1964, c. 3; 1968, c. 738, §
60.1-8; 1974, c. 466; 1986, c. 480.