How this tool works. You qualify if your two highest base-period quarters total at least $3,000 and you had wages in at least two quarters. The Benefit Table assigns $160 a week to two-quarter wages of $3,000 to $3,050, then $1 more for each additional $50, up to $478 for $18,900.01 or more. On the same row, the table sets your number of weeks by total base-period wages: 12 weeks at the bottom of the row, rising one week at a time to 26 weeks once total wages reach twice the row’s two-quarter amount. In a week of part-time work, wages up to $100 are disregarded and each dollar above that reduces the benefit by a dollar, rounded up to the next whole dollar.

Limitations. This is a calculation, not a determination. If you do not qualify on the regular base period, VEC can use the alternate base period (the four most recently completed quarters), which you can test by entering those quarters instead. Claims effective before July 5, 2026 use the previous table ($112 to $430). One unpaid waiting week applies per benefit year. Separation issues, availability and the weekly work search (two different employers) are decided separately.

Sources: Va. Code § 60.2-602 and VEC Benefit Table; § 60.2-603; § 60.2-612; VEC Benefits Information. Rules last verified: October 22, 2026.

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