Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 76.djvu/96

 PUBLIC LAW 87-424-MAR. 30, 1962

48 60 Stat. 528. Employer's voluntary c o n t r i b u tions.

[76 STAT.

SEC. 5. Section 3(c)(8) of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act (D.C. Code, sec. 46-303(c)(8)) is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(iv) Any employer, at any time, may voluntarily pay into the unemployment compensation fund an amount in excess of the contributions required to b3 paid under the provisions of this Act, and such amount shall be forthwith credited to his reserve account. His rate of contribution shall be computed, or recomputed, as the case may be, with such amount included in the calculation. To affect such employer's rate of contribution for any year, such amount shall be )aid not later than thirty days following the mailing of notice of J is rate of contribution for such year, and not later than one hundred and twenty days after the commencement of such year. Such amount, when paid as aforesaid, shall not be refunded or used as a credit in the payment of contributions in whole or in part." SEC. 6. Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 7 of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act (D.C. Code, sec. 46307 (b), (c), and (d)) are amended to read as follows: " (b) A n individual's 'weekly benefit amount' shall be an amount equal to one twenty-third (computed to the next higher multiple of $1) of his total wages for insured work paid during that quarter of his base period in which such total wages were highest, with such other following limitations. If an individual's weekly benefit amount is less than $8, it shall be $8. The Director shall determine annually a maximum weekly benefit amount by computing 50 per centum of the average weekly wage paid to employees in insured work, and shall on or before January 1 of the calendar year in which it shall be effective announce by publication in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the District, the maximum weekly benefit amount so determined. Such computation shall be made by determining total wages reported as paid for insured work by employers in each twelve-month period ending June 30, and dividing said total wages by a figure resulting from fifty-two times the average of midmonth employment reported by employers for the same period. For the period from the effective date oi this Act to December 31, 1962, the maximum weekly benefit amount shall be determined and announced by the Director in accordance with the foregoing formula on the basis of wages and employment in the twelve-month period ending June 30, 1961. The maximum weekly benefit amount so determined and announced for a calendar year shall apply only to those claims filed in that year qualifying for maximum payment under the foregoing formula. All claims qualifying for payment at the maximum weekly benefit amount shall be paid at the maximum weekly benefit amount in effect when the benefit year to which the claim relates was first established, notwithstanding a change in said amount for a subsequent calendar year. If the maximum weekly benefit amount is not a multiple of $1, then said maximum weekly benefit amount shall be computed to the next higher multiple of $1.

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Oual i f i c a t i o n standards.

"(c) To qualify for benefits an individual must have (1) been paid wages for employment of not less than $130 in one quarter in his base period, (2) been paid wages for employment of not less than $276 in not less than two quarters in such period, and (3) received during such period wages the total amount of which is equal to at least one and one-half times the amount of his wages for the quarter in such period in which his wages were the highest. Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (3), any otherwise qualified individual, the total amount of whose wages during such period is less than the amount required to have been received during such period under such clause, may qualify for benefits if the differences between the

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