MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

1443

CHAPTER 297
(Senate Bill 23 2)

AN ACT concerning

Unemployment Insurance Law — Repayment of
Funds Illegally Received

FOR the purpose of authorizing the recovery from
claimants by offset against future benefits payable
to them, as well as by cash, the overpayment of
benefits fraudulently obtained and deleting the
proviso disqualifying such claimants from benefits
until after five years following the offense or one
year following expiration of a one—year
disqualification, whichever occurs later.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 17(e)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 17(e) of Article 95A -
Unemployment Insurance Law, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be
and it is hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 95A — Unemployment Insurance Law

17.

(e) When any person is found by the Executive
Director to have made a false statement or representation
knowing it to be false or to have knowingly failed to
disclose a material fact to obtain or increase any
benefit or other payment under this article, [such
person] HE shall [be required to] repay [to the Executive
Director for] the fund a sum equal to all of the benefits
received by or paid to [such individual] HIM for each
week with respect to which [such] THE false statement or
representation was made or with respect to which he
failed to disclose a material fact. THE AMOUNT MAY BE
RECOVERED FROM BENEFITS PAYABLE TO HIM OR WHICH MAY BE