Maximum Weekly Benefit

The South Carolina Employment Security Law provides for a flexible, maximum, weekly benefit amount which shall be determined each year by the Commission.

An insured worker's weekly benefit amount shall be fifty percent of his average weekly wage and such weekly benefit amount, if not a multiple of one dollar, shall be computed to the next lower multiple of one dollar; provided, however, that no insured worker's weekly benefit amount shall be less than twenty dollars nor greater than fifty percent of the most recently computed, statewide average, weekly wage.

The maximum weekly benefit amount, as established above, will be effective for benefit years beginning on or after July 1st of the current calendar year and prior to July 1st of the succeeding calendar year.