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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 607

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 3(b) 3(b)(1), 8(c)(4), and 20(n)(1) 3(d), and

21(a)(6)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

3.

(b) (1) Weekly Benefit Amount. An individual'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 AND AS
ADJUSTED BY REGULATION PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS
SUBSECTION. 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 required in § 4(d) 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 one of the next 6 lower divisions on
the schedule, he is to be considered eligible for benefits
as shown in that next lower division.

SCHEDULE OF BENEFITS

Weekly
Benefit
Division High Quarter Wages Amount

			1	[A)		(B)
[l		576.01	to	$	600.00	25.00
2	$	600.01	to	$	624.00	26.00
3	$	624.01	to	$	648.00	27.00
4	$	648.01	to	$	672.00	28.00
5	$	672.01	to		696.00	29.00
6		696.01	to	$	720.00	30.00
7	$	720.01	to	$	744.00	31.00
8	$	744.01	to	$	768.00	32.00
9	$	768.01	to	$	792.00	33.00
10	$	792.01	to	$	816.00	34.00
11	$	816.01	to	$	840.00	35.00
12		840.01	to		864.00	36.00

Minimum

Qualifying

Wages

(C)

900.00

936.00

972.00
1,008.00
1,044.00
1,080.00
1,116.00
1,152.00
1,188.00
1,224.00
1,260.00
1,296.00