1504                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                       CH. 735

(2) Weekly Benefits for Partial Unemployment. Each eligible
individual who is unemployed in any week shall be paid with respect
to such week a benefit in an amount equal to his weekly benefit
amount plus allowance for dependents, less that part of the wages
(if any) payable to him with respect to such week which is in excess
of [$7.00] $10.00; provided that such amount of benefits, if not a
multiple of $1.00, shall be computed to the nearest multiple of $1.00
except that if such amount ends in .50 it shall be carried to the
next higher multiple of $1.00.

(c) Each individual who is eligible to receive benefits for un-
employment with respect to any week shall be paid with respect to
such week an allowance for dependents of two THREE dollars for
each of but not more than four of such individual's children, stepchil-
dren, or legally adopted children, who at the beginning of the individ-
ual'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 unemploy-
ment benefits and allowances for dependents shall not exceed [$50]
$56 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 bene-
fits 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 individual 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 pre-
sumed that the father or stepfather is wholly or mainly support-
ing 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' allow-
ances shall be regarded as benefits for the purpose of computing
contribution rates under the terms of Section 8(c) of this article.

Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Section 4(f) of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume) (1967 Supplement), title "Unemploy-
ment Insurance Law," sub-title "Benefits," be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

4.

(f) Requirement for earning wages prior to second benefit year.—
An individual who has received benefits in a benefit year shall not
be eligible for benefits in a subsequent benefit year unless such indi-
vidual shall have earned wages [in insured work as defined in Section
20] as a result of performing services in the employ of another, equal
to not less than ten times his weekly benefit amount after the be-
ginning of the first of such benefit years.

Sec. 3. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Section 8(c) (6) of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
(1964 Replacement Volume) (1967 Supplement), title "Unemploy-