Unemployment Estimate

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Unemployment benefits in Tennessee

$325Maximum weekly benefit

$325 a week (top of the benefit table, Tenn. Code 50-7-301(b))12

The details

Minimum weekly benefit
$55 a week.12
How the weekly amount is figured
Set by the benefit table from average wages in your two highest base period quarters.1
Maximum weeks
12 weeks when the state average unemployment rate is 5.5 percent or less, rising to 20 weeks above 9 percent.1

The sources we read do not say: waiting week, base period, how to apply.

Tennessee agency pages could not be read. The statute copy and the US DOL January 2026 table agree on $55 to $325.

Sources

  1. Tenn. Code 50-7-301 (2025), Justia US Law (copy of state code) (secondary), checked 1 November 2026
  2. Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws, January 2026, US Department of Labor, checked 1 November 2026

Checked 1 November 2026. "Secondary" marks a source used only because the official page could not be read.