Ch. 210                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 210

(House Bill 317)

AN ACT concerning

Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Dependents Allowances

FOR the purpose of altering the weekly allowance for dependents
paid to individuals who receive unemployment benefits.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 3(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

(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 [$4] $10 $6 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
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 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 individual's benefit year shall be deemed to be a child
of any other individual whose benefit year starts within one year
thereafter. Dependents' allowances shall be regarded as benefits
for the purpose of computing contribution rates under the terms
of § 8(c) of this article.

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