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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[CH. 361

CHAPTER 361
(House Bill 836)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 3
(b)(l) and 3(c) of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1964 Replacement Volume and 1968 Supplement), title
"Unemployment Insurance Law," subtitle "Benefits," to increase
the amount of benefits payable to claimants under the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Law.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 3(b)(l) and 3(c) of Article 95A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume and 1968 Supplement),
title "Unemployment Insurance Law," subtitle "Benefits," be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

3.

(b) Weekly benefits.—(1) Weekly Benefit Amount. An indi-
vidual'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 high-
est, 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.

SCHEDULE OF BENEFITS

			Weekly	Minimum
			Benefit	Qualifying
	High Quarter Wages	Amount	Wages
Division		(A)	(B)	(C)
1	$ 192.01 to	$ 240.00	$10.00	$ 360.00