1458                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                                    Ch. 380

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CHAPTER 380

(Senate Bill 893)

AN ACT concerning

Unemployment Insurance - Severance Payments

FOR the purpose of providing that severance payments paid to an

individual due to job abolishment for any reason will not be
deductible from an individual's unemployment insurance
benefits; and providing that this Act shall apply to claims
filed on or after a certain date.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 6(h)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

6.

An individual shall be disqualified for benefits:

(h) For any week with respect to which he is receiving, has
received, or has filed, or is eligible to file a claim for
remuneration in an amount equal to or in excess of his weekly
benefit amount in the form of dismissal payment or wages in lieu
of notice whether legally required or not, such payments to be

allocated to a number of weeks following separation from
employment equal to the number of weeks' pay received.

Provided, that if such remuneration is less than his weekly
benefit amount, an otherwise eligible individual shall not be
deemed ineligible and shall be entitled to receive for such week
benefits reduced by the amount of such payments.

Provided further, there shall be no disqualification under
this section if the claimant's unemployment is due to the
abolition of his job [either for technological reasons or because
the employer has permanently discontinued the operation of the
plant, division, department or section thereof in which the
claimant was last employed].

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall

apply to individuals who file a claim establishing a new benefit
year on or after June 30, 1986.