8-73-101. Payment of benefits

8-73-101. Payment of benefits. (1) All benefits provided in this article shall be payable from the fund. All benefits shall be paid through employment offices or such other agencies as the director of the division, by general rule, may designate. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, any amount of unemployment compensation payable to any individual for any week, if not an even dollar amount, shall be rounded to the next lower full dollar amount.

(2) An individual's eligibility and benefit amounts shall be determined weekly. Unemployment insurance benefit checks shall be issued once every two weeks; except that the division, when it determines it to be necessary for proper administration of articles 70 to 82 of this title, including the effecting of administrative economies, may issue benefit checks on a weekly basis. Under no circumstance shall benefit checks be issued less frequently than once every two weeks.