Unemployment benefits in West Virginia

Table-based: your total base-period wages place you in a wage class, and each class carries its own assigned weekly benefit rate (not a simple percentage or divisor). The minimum weekly benefit is $24, and the maximum is $662. Table effective July 1, 2022. Search results referenced 2024 legislation (SB840/SB841) reportedly effective January 1, 2025 that may have superseded these figures — could not confirm whether a newer table exists, so this is the current-best rather than a definitive current figure. Maximum benefit payable is 26× the weekly rate.

This could not be confirmed from a primary source for the current benefit year.

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

$662 a week is the most West Virginia 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: Table-based: your total base-period wages place you in a wage class, and each class carries its own assigned weekly benefit rate (not a simple percentage or divisor).

This page does not model payment dates. Timing is set by West Virginia'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.