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PUBLIC LAW 87-424r-MAR. 30, 1962

amounts so required to have been received and the total amount of his wages during such period does not exceed $70, but the amount of his weekly benefit, as computed under section 7(b), shall be reduced by $1 if such difference does not exceed $35 or by $2 if such difference is more than $35. Wages received by an individual in the period intervening between the end of his last base period and the beginning of his last benefit year and paid by employers who were his base period employers in such last base period shall not be available for benefit purposes in a subsequent benefit year unless he has, subsequent to the commencement of such last benefit year, received remuneration for personal services, whether or not such services were performed in employment as defined in this Act, in an amount equal to at least ten times the weekly benefit amount for which he qualifies in such last benefit year. Benefits payable to an individual with respect to a week shall be reduced, under regulations prescribed by the Board, by any amount received with respect to such week as a retirement pension or annuity under a public or private retirement plan or system provided, or contributed to, by any base period employer. An amount received with respect to a period other than a week shall be prorated by weeks. No reduction shall be made under the preceding two sentences for (A) any retirement pension or annuity received by reason of disability, or (B) any amount received under title II of the Social Security Act. " (d) Any otherwise eligible individual shall be entitled during any benefit year to a total amount of benefits equal to thirty-four times his weekly benefit amount or 50 percent of the wages for employment paid to such individual by employers during his base period, whichever is the lesser. Such total amount of benefits, if not a multiple of $1, shall be computed to the next higher multiple of $1." SEC. 7. Subsection (f) of section 7 of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act (D.C. Code, sec. 46-307(f)) is amended by striking out "$30" and inserting in lieu thereof "the established maximum benefit amount". SEC. 8. Clause (b) of section 9 of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act (D.C. Code, sec. 46-309) is amended to read as follows: "(b) that he has during his base period been paid wages for employment by employers equal to those required by subsection (c) of section 7." SEC. 9. Subsections (d) and (e) of section 10 of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act (D.C. Code, sec. 46-310 (d) and (e)) are amended to read as follows: " (d)(1) Benefits shall not be denied to any otherwise eligible individual for refusing to accept new work under any of the following conditions: (A) If the position offered is vacant due directly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute; (B) if the wages, earnings, hours, or other conditions of the work offered are less favorable to the individual than those prevailing for similar work in the locality; (C) if as a condition of being employed the individual would be rwjuired to join a company union or to resign from or refrain from Joining any bona fide labor organization. "(2) Compensation shall not be denied to any otherwise eligible individual for any week during which he is attending a training or retraining course with the approval of the Board, and such individual shall be deemed to be otherwise eligible for any such week despite the provisions of section 9(d) and subsection (c) of this section. "(e) I f any individual otherwise eligible for benefits fails, without good cause as determined by the Board under regulations prescribed 78135 0-63—7

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