Unemployment benefits in New Hampshire

A statutory table maps total base-period earnings directly to a weekly benefit amount, contingent on earning at least $1,400 in each of two quarters — not a percentage or divisor formula. The minimum weekly benefit is $32, and the maximum is $427. Unchanged since July 1, 2007 — New Hampshire's maximum is not indexed and has not moved in almost two decades.

Up to 26 weeks, the standard duration most states pay.

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

$427 a week is the most New Hampshire 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: A statutory table maps total base-period earnings directly to a weekly benefit amount, contingent on earning at least $1,400 in each of two quarters — not a percentage or divisor formula.

This page does not model payment dates. Timing is set by New Hampshire'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.