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(b) The department shall utilize any reasonable means determined necessary by the

secretary to identify and prevent the payment of benefits to incarcerated

individuals who are disqualified under this section. (402.6 amended Nov. 3, 2016, P.L.1100, No.144) Section 403. Payment of Compensation Due Deceased Claimants.--All accrued benefits due any deceased claimant may, in the discretion of the department, be paid to such persons having an interest in the estate of the deceased, without letters testamentary or of administration, as the department by rule and regulation shall determine. (403 amended June 22, 1964, Sp. Sess., P.L.112, No.7) Section 404. Rate and Amount of Compensation.--Compensation shall be paid to each eligible employe in accordance with the following provisions of this section except that compensation payable with respect to weeks ending in benefit years which begin prior to the first day of January 1989 shall be paid on the basis of the provisions of this section in effect at the beginning of such benefit years.

(a) (1) The employe's weekly benefit rate shall be computed as (1) the amount

appearing in Part B of the Table Specified for the Determination of Rate

and Amount of Benefits on the line on which in Part A there appears his

"highest quarterly wage," or (2) fifty per centum (50%) of his full-time

weekly wage, whichever is greater. Notwithstanding any other provision

of this act, if an employe's weekly benefit rate, as calculated under this

paragraph, is less than sixty-eight dollars ($68), he shall be ineligible to

receive any amount of compensation. If the employe's weekly benefit

rate is not a multiple of one dollar ($1), it shall be rounded to the next

lower multiple of one dollar ($1).

(2) If the base year wages of an employe whose weekly benefit rate has been

determined under clause (2) of paragraph (1) of this subsection are insufficient

to qualify him under subsection (c) of this section, his weekly benefit rate

shall be redetermined under clause (1) of paragraph (1) of this subsection.

(3) If an employe's weekly benefit rate as determined under clause (1) of

paragraph (1) of this subsection, or redetermined under paragraph (2) of

this subsection, as the case may be, is less than the maximum weekly

benefit rate and the employe's base year wages are insufficient to qualify

him under subsection (c) of this section but are sufficient to qualify him

for any one of the next two lower weekly benefit rates, his weekly

benefit rate shall be redetermined at the highest of such next lower rates.