PART 330—DETERMINATION OF DAILY BENEFIT RATES Authority: 45 U.S.C. 362(1). Source: 56 FR 28702, June 24, 1991, unless otherwise noted. § 330.1 Introduction. The Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act provides for the payment of benefits, at a specified daily benefit rate, to any qualified employee for his or her days of unemployment or days of sickness, subject to a maximum amount per day. The “daily benefit rate” for an employee is the amount of benefits that he or she may receive for each compensable day of unemployment or sickness in any registration period in a period of continuing unemployment or sickness. [65 FR 19648, Apr. 12, 2000] § 330.2 Computation of daily benefit rate. (a) Basic formula. (b) Maximum daily benefit rate. (c) When increase effective. (d) Notice. Federal Register (e) Sources of information. [56 FR 28702, June 24, 1991, as amended at 65 FR 19648, Apr. 12, 2000] § 330.3 Daily rate of compensation. (a) Definition. (b) Hourly, weekly or monthly rate. (c) Mileage rate. (d) Piece rate or tonnage rate. (e) Commissions or percentage of sales. (f) International service. § 330.4 Last railroad employment in the base year. The phrase “last railroad employment in the applicable base year,” as used in § 330.2(a) of this part, means generally the employee's last “service performed as an employee,” within the meaning of section 1(g) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act. If an employee did not actually perform any service as an employee in the applicable base year (the calendar year preceding a benefit year) but did receive qualifying compensation such as vacation pay or pay for time lost for days in such base year, the Board will consider that his or her last railroad employment in the base year was the employment on which the qualifying compensation was based. The daily rate of such compensation shall be deemed to be the employee's daily rate of compensation for purposes of this part. If an employee's last railroad employment in the base year was casual or temporary work and was performed while on furlough from other base year railroad employment, the Board will disregard the daily rate of compensation paid for the casual or temporary work if such rate of compensation produces a daily benefit rate lower than the daily benefit rate based on the daily rate of compensation for the employment from which the employee was furloughed. § 330.5 Procedure for obtaining and using information about daily rate of compensation. (a) Information furnished by employers. (b) Information furnished by employee. (c) Employer verification. (d) Protest. (Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control numbers 3220-0007, 3220-0008 and 3220-0097)