3522 ARTICLE 95A

(c) (Duration of Benefits.) Any otherwise eligible individual shall be
entitled during any benefit year to a total amount of benefits equal to
whichever is the lesser of (1) sixteen times his weekly benefit amount,
and (2) one-fourth of the wages earned by him for insured work during
his base period; provided that such total amount of benefits, if not a
multiple of $1.00, shall be computed to the next higher multiple of $1.00.

(d) (Reciprocal Benefit Arrangements.) The Board is hereby author-
ized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other
States or the Federal Government whereby potential rights to benefits
accumulated under the unemployment compensation laws of the several
States or under such a law of the. Federal Government, or both, may con-
stitute the basis for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate
agency under terms which the Board finds will be fair and reasonable as
to all affected interests and will not result in any substantial loss to the
fund.

1936 (Dec. Sp. Sess.), ch. 1, sec. 4. 1937, ch. 527, sec. 4. 1939, ch. 278, sec. 4.

4. An unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with
respect to any week only if the Board finds that—

(a) He has registered for work at and thereafter continued to report
at a re-employment office in accordance with such regulations as the Board
may prescribe, except that the Board may, by regulation, waive or alter
either or both of the requirements of this sub-section as to individuals
attached to regular jobs and as to such other types of cases or situations
with respect to which it finds that compliance with such requirements
would be oppressive, or would be inconsistent with the purposes of this
Article; provided that no such regulation shall conflict with section 3 (a)
of this Article.

(b) He has made a claim for benefits with respect to such week in ac-
cordance with such regulations as the Board may prescribe,
(c) He is able to work, and is available for work.

(d) He has been unemployed for a waiting period of two weeks. Such
weeks of unemployment need not be consecutive. No week shall be counted
as a week of unemployment for the purposes of this sub-section:

(1) Unless it occurs within the benefit year which includes the week
with respect to which he claims payment of benefits, provided that this
requirement shall not interrupt the payment of benefits for consecutive
weeks of unemployment, and provided further that the week or the two
consecutive weeks immediately preceding a benefit year, if part of one
uninterrupted period of unemployment which continues into such benefit
year, shall be deemed (for the purposes of this sub-section only) to be
within such benefit year as well as within the preceding benefit year;

(2) If benefits have been paid with respect thereto;

(3) Unless the individual was eligible for benefits with respect thereto
as provided in Sections 4 and 5 of this Article, except for the requirements
of this sub-section and of sub-section (f) of Section 5.

(e) He has during his base period earned wages for insured work
equal to not less than the amount appearing in Column C of the table in
Section 3 (b) (1), on the line on which, in Column B of that table, appears
his weekly benefit amount.