Unemployment benefits in Texas
$619Maximum weekly benefit
$619 a week, effective October 4, 20261
The details
- Minimum weekly benefit
- $76 a week, effective October 4, 2026.1
- How the weekly amount is figured
- Wages in your highest base period quarter divided by 25, rounded to the nearest dollar.1
- Maximum weeks
- Total benefits are the lesser of 26 times the weekly amount or 27 percent of base period wages.1
- Base period
- The first four of the last five completed calendar quarters before the claim's effective date.1
The sources we read do not say: waiting week, how to apply.
Sources
- Eligibility and Benefit Amounts, Texas Workforce Commission, checked 1 November 2026
Checked 1 November 2026. "Secondary" marks a source used only because the official page could not be read.