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(c) Allowances for dependents.—Each individual who is eligible to
receive benefits for unemployment with respect to any week shall
be paid with respect to such week an allowance for dependents of two
dollars for each of but not more than four of such individual's
children, stepchildren, or legally adopted children, who at the begin-
ning of the individual's current benefit year were being wholly or
mainly supported by such individual and were under sixteen years of
age, but in no event shall such allowances be paid for more than the
number of weeks of benefits allowable to the individual for total
unemployment. Dependents' allowances shall be in addition to the
unemployment benefits otherwise payable, provided that the total of
such unemployment benefits and allowances for dependents shall not
exceed [$46] $48 in any one benefit week and further provided that
no dependency allowance shall be payable with respect to any week
unless an unemployment benefit is also payable with respect to such
week. An individual's number of dependents shall be determined as
of the day with respect to which he first files a valid claim for benefits
in any benefit year, and shall be fixed for the duration of such benefit
year. No person who has been determined to be a child of one in-
dividual on the beginning date of such individual's benefit year shall
be deemed to be a child of any other individual whose benefit year
starts within one year thereafter. Provided, it shall be presumed that
the father or stepfather is wholly or mainly supporting his children,
stepchildren, or adopted children, who are a part of the household
maintained by him, unless the contrary is shown to the satisfaction of
the Executive Director. Dependents' allowances shall be regarded as
benefits for the purpose of computing contribution rates under the
terms of Section 8 (c) of this article.

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(f) Requirement for earning wages prior to second benefit year.—
An individual who has received [his total maximum] benefits in a
benefit year shall not be eligible for benefits in a subsequent benefit
year unless such individual shall have earned wages in insured work
as defined in Section 20 equal to not less than ten times his weekly
benefit amount after the beginning of the [benefit year in which he
exhausted his benefits] first of such benefit years.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 796
(House Bill 392)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 8 (c)
(2) and 8 (c) (5) of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1964 Replacement Volume) title "Unemployment Insurance
Law," subtitle "Contributions," with respect to requiring delinquent
employers to pay contributions at the maximum rate, limiting the