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Ky. Rev. Stat. § 341.730 (2026)

Total extended benefit amount -- Formula for high unemployment periods

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The total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible worker with respect to his applicable benefit year shall be the least of the following amounts:

(1) Fifty percent (50%) of the maximum amount of regular benefits which were payable to him under this chapter in his applicable benefit year; or

(2) Thirteen (13) times the weekly benefit rate which was payable to him under this chapter for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year.

(3) Effective with respect to weeks beginning in a high unemployment period, subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall be applied by substituting:

(a) Eighty percent (80%) for fifty percent (50%) in subsection (1) of this section; and

(b) Twenty (20) for thirteen (13) in subsection (2) of this section. As used in this subsection, "high unemployment period" means any period during which an extended benefit period would be in effect if KRS 341.094(3) were applied by substituting eight percent (8%) for six and one-half percent (6.5%). Effective: July 15, 2010 History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2010. -- Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 21, sec. 37.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 2002–2022 · leading case: McDowell v. Jackson Energy RECC, 84 S.W.3d 71 (Ky. 2002).
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McDowell v. Jackson Energy RECC, 84 S.W.3d 71 (Ky. 2002). · cites it 2× “KRS 341.730(4) terminates workers' compensation benefits simply because a worker "qualifies for normal old-age Social Security benefits," without regard to the amount of social security benefit that worker will receive.”
Deborah Robbins French v. Rev-A-Shelf (Ky. Ct. App. 2021). “140 must be utilized to determine a worker’s post-injury wages under KRS 341.730(1)(c)(2).” See Garcia v. Cent.”
Lewis Door Serv. Co. v. John J. Reker (Ky. Ct. App. 2021). “Under the unique circumstances of this case, the retroactive application of the new version of KRS 341.730(4) meant that Lewis Door’s basis for terminating Reker’s TTD benefits was no longer valid.”
William Decker v. Control Sys. (Ky. 2022). “Shortly after Decker’s brief was filed in this Court, we rendered opinions addressing the constitutionality of the retroactivity of the 2018 amendment to KRS 341.730(4) in two cases, Cates v. Kroger, 627 S.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 341.730(1)(c)(2) — 1 case
Deborah Robbins French v. Rev-A-Shelf (Ky. Ct. App. 2021). “140 must be utilized to determine a worker’s post-injury wages under KRS 341.730(1)(c)(2).” See Garcia v. Cent.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 341.730(4) — 3 cases
McDowell v. Jackson Energy RECC, 84 S.W.3d 71 (Ky. 2002). “KRS 341.730(4) terminates workers' compensation benefits simply because a worker "qualifies for normal old-age Social Security benefits," without regard to the amount of social security benefit that worker will receive.”
Lewis Door Serv. Co. v. John J. Reker (Ky. Ct. App. 2021). “Under the unique circumstances of this case, the retroactive application of the new version of KRS 341.730(4) meant that Lewis Door’s basis for terminating Reker’s TTD benefits was no longer valid.”
William Decker v. Control Sys. (Ky. 2022). “Shortly after Decker’s brief was filed in this Court, we rendered opinions addressing the constitutionality of the retroactivity of the 2018 amendment to KRS 341.730(4) in two cases, Cates v. Kroger, 627 S.”
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