Unemployment benefits in Florida

1/26 of your highest base-period quarter's wages. Florida calls this program Reemployment Assistance rather than unemployment insurance. The minimum weekly benefit is $32, and the maximum is $275. Maximum unchanged since 2011.

12 weeks when Florida's unemployment rate is 5% or below, plus one additional week per 0.5-point rise above that, up to a maximum of 23 weeks.

The standard base period: your wages in the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters before you filed your claim.

$275 a week is the most Florida pays, before any deductions you elect such as tax withholding or child support. Most claimants receive less, because the weekly amount is calculated from your own base-period wages: 1/26 of your highest base-period quarter's wages. Florida calls this program Reemployment Assistance rather than unemployment insurance.

This page does not model payment dates. Timing is set by Florida's own unemployment agency rather than by the benefit formula, and normally depends on when your weekly or biweekly claim is filed and processed rather than on a fixed calendar day. What this page does model is how much you are owed and for how long, both traced to the sources listed below.