Section 204. Disability during employment  


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  • 1. Disability benefits shall be
      payable to an eligible employee for disabilities commencing  after  June
      thirtieth, nineteen hundred fifty, beginning with the eighth consecutive
      day  of  disability and thereafter during the continuance of disability,
      subject to the  limitations  as  to  maximum  and  minimum  amounts  and
      duration  and  other  conditions  and limitations in this section and in
      sections two hundred five and two hundred  six.  Successive  periods  of
      disability  caused  by  the  same or related injury or sickness shall be
      deemed a single period of disability only  if  separated  by  less  than
      three months.
        2.  The  weekly  benefit  which  the  disabled employee is entitled to
      receive for disability  commencing  on  or  after  May  first,  nineteen
      hundred eighty-nine shall be one-half of the employee's weekly wage, but
      in no case shall such benefit exceed one hundred seventy dollars; except
      that  if the employee's average weekly wage is less than twenty dollars,
      the benefit shall be such average weekly wage. The weekly benefit  which
      the  disabled  employee is entitled to receive for disability commencing
      on or after July first, nineteen hundred eighty-four shall  be  one-half
      of  the employee's weekly wage, but in no case shall such benefit exceed
      one hundred forty-five dollars; except that if  the  employee's  average
      weekly  wage  is  less  than  twenty  dollars, the benefit shall be such
      average weekly wage. The weekly benefit which the disabled  employee  is
      entitled  to  receive  for disability commencing on or after July first,
      nineteen hundred eighty-three and prior to July first, nineteen  hundred
      eighty-four shall be one-half of the employee's average weekly wage, but
      in no case shall such benefit exceed one hundred thirty-five dollars nor
      be  less  than  twenty  dollars;  except  that if the employee's average
      weekly wage is less than  twenty  dollars  the  benefit  shall  be  such
      average  weekly  wage. The weekly benefit which the disabled employee is
      entitled to receive for disability commencing on or  after  July  first,
      nineteen hundred seventy-four, and prior to July first, nineteen hundred
      eighty-three,  shall  be one-half of the employee's average weekly wage,
      but in no case shall such benefit exceed ninety-five dollars nor be less
      than twenty dollars; except that if the employee's average  weekly  wage
      is  less  than  twenty dollars, the benefit shall be such average weekly
      wage. The weekly benefit which the  disabled  employee  is  entitled  to
      receive  for  disability  commencing  on  or  after July first, nineteen
      hundred seventy and prior to July first, nineteen  hundred  seventy-four
      shall  be one-half of the employee's average weekly wage, but in no case
      shall such benefit exceed seventy-five dollars nor be less  than  twenty
      dollars;  except that if the employee's average weekly wage is less than
      twenty dollars the benefit shall be such average weekly wage.   For  any
      period  of  disability less than a full week, the benefits payable shall
      be calculated by dividing the  weekly  benefit  by  the  number  of  the
      employee's normal work days per week and multiplying the quotient by the
      number  of  normal  work  days  in such period of disability. The weekly
      benefit for  a  disabled  employee  who  is  concurrently  eligible  for
      benefits  in  the  employment  of  more than one covered employer shall,
      within the maximum and minimum herein provided, be one-half of the total
      of the employee's average weekly wages received from  all  such  covered
      employers,  and shall be allocated in the proportion of their respective
      average weekly wage payments.