Benefit charges; federal disasters

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1502.1, no employer located in an Illinois county that has, during 1993, been declared a federal disaster area due to flooding shall be chargeable for any benefit charges which result from the payment of benefits to any individual for any weeks of unemployment during the period of the federal disaster, but only to the extent that the employer can show that the individual's unemployment was a direct result of the flooding. (Source: P.A. 88-518.)