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Texas Labor Code § 207.047

Failure to Apply For, Accept, or Return to Work

Benefits · Exceptions to and Disqualification for Benefits

(a) An individual is disqualified for benefits if during the individual's current benefit year, the individual failed, without good cause, to:

(1) apply for available, suitable work when directed to do so by the commission;

(2) accept suitable work offered to the individual; or

(3) return to the individual's customary self-employment, if any, when directed to do so by the commission.

(b) Disqualification for benefits under this section continues until the individual has returned to employment and:

(1) worked for six weeks; or

(2) earned wages equal to six times the individual's benefit amount.

Official text of the Texas Labor Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.

Sections that refer to this one

§ 207.021