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dependents* allowances.
BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 3(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 3(c) of Article 95A - Unemployment
Insurance Lav, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 95A — Unemployment Insurance Law
3.

(c) 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 three dollars for each of but not more than
four of such individual's children, stepchildren, or
legally adopted children, who at the beginning of the
individual's current benefit year were being wholly or
[mainly] PARTIALLY 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 [$78] THE
MAXIMUM WEEKLY BENEFIT AMOUNT 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 individual
on the beginning date of such individuals 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.]