Maryland Unemployment Benefits Calculator
Maryland claimant entry
Maryland agency-award worksheet
For Maryland, enter the weekly award, maximum balance, and payable weeks issued by Maryland Department of Labor; this route asserts no state-law formula.
Maryland Department of Labor controls Maryland eligibility and the monetary record; this worksheet only mirrors Maryland values for review and never awards benefits.
Maryland claimant source: https://labor.maryland.gov/employment/unemployment.shtml — checked 2026-09-14 by this implementation.
Maryland: filing and evidence
Maryland is presented here in award-entry mode. Maryland Department of Labor reference material lists a Maryland ceiling of $430 weekly and 26 reference weeks, a pairing worth $11,180; neither figure proves monetary eligibility, payable weeks, or approval.
Maryland filing desk
Maryland unemployment benefits belongs with Maryland Department of Labor; this is the claimant-facing starting point.
https://labor.maryland.gov/employment/unemployment.shtmlMaryland wage record boundary
Maryland uses the claim-date base period and agency wage statement; one editable quarter cannot represent the monetary determination.
Maryland claimant next action
File through BEACON and use the Maryland wage inquiry or appeal instructions if the record is wrong. For Maryland, keep employer names, pay-stub dates, gross wages, separation details, and work-search records together; Maryland Department of Labor needs the Maryland record when checking base-period quarters and the monetary determination.
Maryland agency source link (https://labor.maryland.gov/employment/unemployment.shtml) checked 2026-09-14; the federal comparison table is listed on the shared sources page.
Maryland pays everyone 26 weeks and adds $8 a dependant
Maryland's duration column reads "uniform 26" and its maximum benefit amount column reads N/A. There is no formula scaling your claim length to your work record: clear the wage test and the entitlement is the same as everyone else's.
- Uniform 26 weeks. Only a handful of states do this. It means a marginal claimant and a long-tenured one receive the same number of payable weeks, with the wage test doing all the filtering.
- 1/24 of high-quarter wages, plus $8 per dependant up to five. The allowance moves the published minimum from $50 to $90; the $430 maximum is the ceiling regardless.
- Qualifying has three parts: 1.5 times high-quarter wages, $1,176.01 in the high quarter, and $1,800 across two quarters.
- Part-time work: up to $50 is ignored. A flat figure rather than a fraction, so it is worth proportionally more to claimants at the lower end.
- Every employer is covered, with no weeks-of-employment or quarterly-payroll threshold.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws, effective January 2026. The report states it is not an official interpretation of state UI laws, so treat these provisions as a cross-check on the Department of Labor determination rather than a replacement for it.
Weekly maximums nearest Maryland
States whose maximum weekly benefit is closest to Maryland: