§ 28-44-9 Duration of benefits. – (a) The maximum total amount of benefits payable during a benefit year to any eligible individual whose benefit year begins on or after November 16, 1958, and prior to October 1, 1989, shall be determined in the following manner:
(i) The total number of weeks of employment in his or her base period shall be multiplied by three-fifths ( 3/5), and the result, if not a whole number of weeks, shall be adjusted to the next higher whole number of weeks, and
(ii) The number of weeks so obtained shall be multiplied by the individual's weekly benefit rate for total unemployment; and the result shall be the total amount of benefit credits to which that individual is entitled during his or her benefit year. However, no individual shall be paid total benefits in any benefit year which exceed twenty-six (26) times his or her weekly benefit rate. Dependents' allowances to which he or she might be entitled under § 28-44-6 shall be in addition to those total benefits.
(2) Each week of employment within an individual's base period shall be counted as one week for the purpose of this section, regardless of the number of employers for whom an individual performed services in employment during that week. For the purpose of this section, a week of employment shall be any calendar week within which an individual has performed services in employment for one or more employers subject to chapters 42 – 44 of this title.
(b) The total amount of benefits payable during a benefit year to any eligible individual whose benefit year begins on or after October 1, 1989, shall be an amount equal to thirty-six percent (36%) of the individual's total wages for employment by employers subject to chapters 42 – 44 of this title during his or her base period; provided, that no individual shall be paid total benefits in any benefit year which exceed twenty-six (26) times his or her weekly benefit rate. Dependents' allowances to which he or she might be entitled under § 28-44-6 shall be in addition to the total benefits. If the total amount of benefits is not an exact multiple of one dollar ($1.00), then it shall be rounded to the next lower multiple of one dollar ($1.00).