Unemployment Insurance Division

This Division supervises the Unemployment Insurance Program
carried out by the local office. The Unemployment Insurance Division
also collects contributions from employers covered by the Maryland
Unemployment Insurance Law, collects quarterly wage information
on the employees of these employers, determines weekly benefit
amounts in accordance with this wage information, issues benefit
checks to local offices, reviews benefit payments to determine if any
were improperly made, recovers improper payments, and pays benefits
to individuals who formerly worked in Maryland, but who reside in
other states, as provided by a reciprocal interstate agreement. The
law provides for an experience-rating system under which employers
who maintain steady employment are eligible for reduction in the
rate of contributions. All funds collected under the law are deposited
with the Federal Treasury for the credit of the Unemployment Trust
Fund of Maryland and may be used only for the payment of benefits.

Employment Service Division

This is a staff division concerned with Employment Service technical
functions. It is responsible for the development of programs, the
evaluation of Employment Service activities, and the staff supervision
of such functions as counseling; aptitude testing; employer relations
and placement; and services to older workers and the handicapped. It
furnishes job analysis and related service directly to employers. The
Employment Service Division cooperates with the Governor's Com-
mittee to Promote Employment of the Handicapped; the Baltimore
City Committee on Aging and Problems of the Aged; the Committee
on the Economic and Employment Problems of the Aging of the Mary-
land State Conference of Social Welfare; the Baltimore Council of
Social Agencies; the Maryland Commission for the Prevention and
Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency; the Committees on Correctional
Services and the State Coordinating Commission on Problems of the
Aging.

Appeals Division

This Division, under the supervision of a director responsible to the
Board of Appeals, conducts hearings on all appeals filed by claimants
or employers from the determinations of claims examiners in the
Department's local offices. Claimants may appeal from determinations
disqualifying them for benefits, or employers from determinations
allowing benefits, as the case may be. An Appeals Referee hears all
such appeals. Any aggrieved party may further appeal to the Board
of Appeals. Final appellate recourse is to the Courts of Maryland.

Methods and Personnel Division

This Division provides staff for the Department, trains employees
in all phases of the Department's operations, and develops and pre-
pares a manual of operational procedures for the guidance of per-
sonnel in the Department.

Administrative Management Division

This Division manages all fiscal operations of the Department, in-
cluding budgetary control, inventory, cost accounting, supplies, serv-
ices and maintenance. This Division is also responsible for the accu-
mulation, study and dissemination of data relating to labor market
statistics and characteristics.