WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Sincerely,

William Donald Schaefer

Governor

Senate Bill No. 715

AN ACT concerning

Unemployment Insurance - Allowance for
Dependents - Elimination of Numerical Limit

FOR the purpose of eliminating increasing a limit on the number
of dependents for whom certain individuals may be paid a
certain allowance; imposing certain verification criteria on
certain dependents for whom a certain allowance is paid; and
generally relating to the payment of an allowance for
dependents of individuals eligible to 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 1988 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

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 $8 for each of [ but
not more than four FIVE 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, AND ARE VERIFIED BY A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR A
COPY OF A BIRTH CERTIFICATE SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT BY THE
INDIVIDUAL, 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

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