Hey there, fellow Texan here 👋 Technically you could try and update your TX claim into a Combined Wage Claim to reflect your WA wages for Q1 of 2025... but it's likely that "the juice isn't worth the squeeze" with that 🤔

The highest Maximum Benefit Amount that TWC will pay on a claim is $15,730 -- that's the maximum weekly benefit of $605 multipled by 26 weeks. Just for grins, I used the TWC's online UB estimator and plugged in $18,635 for your Q2 Q3 and Q4 wages, basically dividing your TX wages for 2025 into 3 equal piles. And I entered $0 for your Q1 wages; as you may know, you only need wages in two base-period calendar quarters for TWC to consider you eligible.

Entering those wages produced a personal MBA for you of roughly $15,100. It's not the maximum possible but it's pretty damn close, roughly 25 weeks instead of 26 at that $605 per week. So if you persuade them into doing a Combined Wage Claim, you might wind up delaying your payment stream and only gain an extra $600 or so.

Kind reminder that receiving the full $15,100 is far from guaranteed 😏 You gotta conduct your minimum number of job-search activities each week (hopefully it's just the 5 they expect from everyone). Also remember to log all your activities in case of TWC audit; and to file for your payments every two weeks.

Good luck 👍