Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 89.djvu/522

 89 STAT. 462

Daily benefit rate.

45 USC 352.

45 USC 231.

Extended benefit period. 45 USC 352.

PUBLIC LAW 94-92—AUG. 9, 1975 (2) by striking out the second paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The daily benefit rate with respect to any such employee for such day of unemployment or sickness shall be in an amount equal to 60 per centum of the daily rate of compensation for the employee's last employment in which he engaged for an employer in the base year, but not less than $12.70: Provided, however, That for registration periods beginning after June 30, 1975, but before July 1, 1976, such amount shall not exceed $24 per day of such unemployment or sickness and that for registration periods beginning after June 30, 1976, such amount shall not exceed $25 per day of such unemployment or sickness. The daily rate of compensation referred to in this paragraph shall be determined by the Board on the basis of information furnished to the Board by the employee, his employer, or both.". (d) Section 2(c) of such Act is amended— (1) by inserting "except that notwithstanding the provisions of section l (i) of this Act, in determining the employee's compensation in the base year for purposes of this proviso and the second proviso of this subsection, any money remuneration paid to the employee for services rendered as an employee-not in excess of $775 in any month shall be taken into account" immediately before the colon at the end of the first proviso; and (2) by inserting immediately after the colon at the end of the first proviso the following: ^''Provided further., That, with respect to an employee who has less than ten years of service as defined in section 1(f) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, who did not voluntarily retire and did not voluntarily leave work without good cause, and who had current rights to normal benefits for days of unemployment in a benefit year but has exhausted such rights, the maximum number of days of, and amount of payment for, unemployment within such benefit year (as extended by the provisions of subsection (h) of this section) for which benefits may be paid shall be enlarged, but not by more than sixty-five days, to include all compensable days of unemployment within an extended benefit period determined pursuant to the provisions of subsection (h) of this section, but the total amount of benefits which may be paid to an employee for days of unemployment within such extended benefit period shall in no case exceed 50 per centum of the employee's compensation in the base year:". (e) Section 2 of such Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: '^(h)(1) For purposes of the second proviso of subsection (c) of this section, an extended benefit period, with respect to an employee, shall begin on the first day of unemployment within a period of high unemployment following the day on which the employee exhausted his then current rights to normal benefits for unemployment and shall continue for seven successive f©urteen-day periods (each of which periods shall constitute a registration period). If the general benefit year in which an employee's extended benefit period began ends within such extended benefit period, such benefit year shall, in the case of such employee, be deemed not to be ended until the last day of the extended benefit period. If an employee unemployed within a period of high unemployment is not a 'qualified employee' for the general benefit year then current but was a 'qualified employee' for the preceding general benefit year, such preceding general benefit year shall, for purposes of the second proviso of subsection (c) of this section, in the case of such employee, be deemed not to be ended until the last day of such

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