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 PUBLIC LAW 104-251—OCT. 9, 1996 110 STAT. 3163 "(I) a period of consecutive days of sickness, whether from 1 or more causes; or "(11) a period of successive days of sickness due to a single cause without interruption of more than 90 consecutive days which are not days of sickness, "(iv) SPECIAL RULE REGARDING END OF PERIOD.— For purposes of applying clause (ii), a period of continuing sickness ends when an employee exhausts rights to sickness benefits under subsection (c) of this section.". SEC. 4. MAXIMUM DAILY BENEFIT RATE. Paragraph (3) of section 2(a) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. 352(a)(3)) is amended to read as follows: "(3) The maximum daily benefit rate computed by the Board under section 12(r)(2) shall be the product of the monthly compensation base, as computed under section l(i)(2) for the base year immediately preceding the beginning of the benefit year, multiplied by 5 percent. If the maximum daily benefit rate so computed is not a multiple of $1, it shall be rounded down to the nearest multiple of $1.". SEC. 5. MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DAYS FOR BENEFITS. (a) IN GENERAL. —Subsection (c) of section 2 of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. 352(c)) is amended to read as follows: "(c) MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DAYS FOR BENEFITS. — "(1) NORMAL BENEFITS. — "(A) GENERALLY. —The maximimi number of days of unemployment within a benefit year for which benefits may be paid to an employee shall be 130, and the maximum number of days of sickness within a benefit year for which benefits may be paid to an employee shall be 130. "(B) LIMITATION. —The total amount of benefits that may be pgdd to an employee for days of imemployment witnin a benefit year shall in no case exceed the employee's compensation in the base year; and the total amount of benefits that may be paid to an employee for days of sickness within a benefit year shall in no case exceed the employee's compensation in the base year, except that notwithstanding section l(i), in determining the employee's compensation in the base year for the purpose of this sentence, any money remuneration paid to the employee for services rendered as an employee shall be taken into account that is not in excess of an amount that bears the same ratio to $775 as the monthly compensation base for that yesir as computed under section l(i) bears to $600. "(2) EXTENDED BENEFITS.— "(A) GENERALLY.— With respect to an employee who has 10 or more yegirs of service as defined in section 1(f) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, who did not volimtarily retire and (in a case involving exhaustion of rights to normal benefits for days of unemployment) did not voluntarily leave work without good cause, and who had current rights to normal benefits for days of unemployment or days of sickness in a benefit year but has exhausted such rights, the benefit year in which such rights are exhausted shall be deemed not to be ended until the last day of the extended benefit period determined under this

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