1502                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                       CH. 735

land (1964 Replacement Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Un-
employment Insurance Law," sub-title "Benefits", to increase the
amount of benefits payable to claimants and dependents under the
Unemployment Insurance Law; to repeal and re-enact, with amend-
ments, Section 4(f) of said Article 95A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, (1964 Replacement Volume and 1967 Supplement),
titled "Unemployment Insurance Law," sub-title "Benefits", to
change the requirement that a claimant must, prior to establishing
a second benefit year, earn ten times his weekly benefit amount in
insured work, to a requirement that he earn ten times his weekly
benefit amount as a result of rendering services to another; and to
repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 8(c) (6) of Article
95A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Unemployment Insurance
Law", sub-title "Contributions", permitting the non-charging of
improperly paid and recoverable benefits against the account of
any employer in any computation after the date of the determina-
tion of overpayment by the Executive Director.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 3(b) (1), 3(b) (2) and 3(c) of Article 95A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume and 1967
Supplement), title "Unemployment Insurance Law", sub-title "Bene-
fits," be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

3.

(b) Weekly Benefits: (1) Weekly Benefit Amount. An individ-
ual's "weekly benefit amount" shall be determined by applying the
total of wages paid him for insured work in that calendar quarter of
his base period in which such total wages were highest to column (A)
in "schedule of benefits" set forth below. Upon determination as to
the division of said schedule for which such individual's high quarter
wages qualify, the weekly benefit amount shall be the amount shown
on the same line in column (B).

Provided, if a claimant had not earned qualifying wages, as re-
quired in Section 4(e) of this article, for the weekly benefit amount
shown in the schedule of benefits on the basis of his earnings in the
calendar quarter of the base period in which his earnings were
highest, but did earn qualifying wages for a lower division on said
schedule, he is to be considered eligible for benefits as shown in
said lower division. Provided further, that in no event shall any
claimant be permitted to drop down more than three divisions as
shown on the said schedule of benefits.