Maryland Department of Employment Security v. Werner

We must decide in this case whether wages actually paid, or wages earned, within a statutory base period control eligibility ■for unemployment benefits under the Unemployment Insurance Eaw of Maryland.

Code (1957), Art. 95A, Sec. 4, provides that an individual is ■eligible for benefits with respect to any week only if, inter alia, “(e) * * * (1) During his base period he has been paid wages for insured work * * *” of a specified amount, calculated in a certain manner, and “(2) During that calendar quarter of his base period in which his total wages were highest, he has been paid for insured…