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 PUBLIC LAW 98-8 —MAR. 24, 1983 97 STAT. 33 "(4) is not receiving unemployment compensation with respect to such day under the unemplo3niient compensation law of Canada. "(b) For purposes of this section, an employee shall be deemed to have exhausted his rights to unemployment benefits under this Act when no unemplo5m!ient benefits (other than supplemental unem- plo3ment benefits payable by reason of this section) can be paid to the employee because he has received the maximum unemployment benefits available to him under this Act, other than this section. "(c) The amount of supplemental unemployment benefits payable to an employee under this section for any day of unemployment shall be equal to the amount that would be payable to him for such day under section 2(a) of this Act if he were entitled to receive benefits under such section. "(d) The maximum number of days of unemployment for which supplemental unemployment benefits may be paid to an employee by reason of this section shall be fifty. "(e) No supplemental unemployment benefits shall be payable by reason of this section for any day before March 10, 1983, or for any day in any registration period beginning after June 30, 1983. " (f) For purposes of this section the term 'period of eligibility' means with respect to any employee, the period beginning with the first day of unemployment following the later of (i) the day on which he exhausted his rights to unemployment benefits (as determined under subsection (b)) in the benefit year beginning July 1, 1982, or (ii) January 31, 1983, and shall consist of five consecutive registra- tion periods, except that no supplemental benefits under this section shall be payable for any day of unemployment in any registration period beginning after June 30, 1983. "(g) The terms and conditions of this Act that apply to claims for unemployment benefits and the payment or recovery thereof shall apply to claims for supplemental unemployment benefits and pay- ment thereof, except where inconsistent with the provisions of this section. "(h)(1) There are authorized to be appropriated from the general fund in the Treasury to the railroad unemployment insurance account in the Unemployment Trust Fund, without fiscal year limitation, such sums as may be necessary to pay supplemental unemplo5Tiient benefits payable by reason of this section. Such amounts shall not be required to be repaid. "(2) There are authorized to be appropriated from the general fund in the Treasury to the railroad unemployment insurance administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund, without fiscal year limitation, such sums as may be necessary to meet the costs of administering the program of supplemental unemployment benefits established by this section. Such amounts shall not be required to be repaid.". (b) In addition to any amounts otherwise appropriated in this Act or any other Act, there are appropriated for the Railroad Retire- ment Board, $125,000,000 for transfer into the railroad unemploy- ment insurance account in the Unemployment Trust Fund in accordance with section 17(h)(1) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, and $750,000 for transfer into the railroad unemploy- ment insurance administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund in accordance with section 17(h)(2) of such Act. Benefit timounts. Maximum number of benefit days. Restrictions. "Period of eligibility." Claims. Repayment. Repayment. Ante. p. 32. 11-194 O i5 — QL3

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