Sec. 1. 26 MRSA §1161, as amended by PL 1977, c. 675, §15, is further amended to read:

§1161. Accounts and deposit

The Treasurer of State shall be is the ex officio treasurer and custodian of the Unemployment Compensation Fund and shall administer such the fund in accordance with the directions of the commissioner. The Treasurer of State shall maintain within the fund 3 4 separate accounts:

1. Clearing account. A clearing account for all money payable to the trust fund account that is not deposited into the combined unemployment insurance contributions and income tax withholding account;

2. Trust fund account. An unemployment trust fund account; and

3. Benefit account. A benefit account.; and

4.__Combined unemployment insurance contributions and income tax withholding account.__A clearing account for that portion of unemployment insurance contributions payable to the trust fund account from the combined money of unemployment insurance contributions and state income tax withholding payments.

All moneys money payable to the fund, upon receipt thereof by the commissioner, shall must be forwarded to the Treasurer of State, who shall immediately deposit them it in the clearing account or the combined unemployment insurance contributions and income tax withholding account. Refunds payable pursuant to section 1043, subsection 11, paragraph F, subparagraph (2) or section 1225 may be paid from the clearing account, the combined unemployment insurance contributions and income tax withholding account or the benefit account upon warrants prepared by the commissioner and signed by the State Controller. After clearance thereof, all other moneys money in the clearing account shall or the combined unemployment insurance contributions and income tax withholding account must be immediately deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America to the credit of the account of this State in the Unemployment Trust Fund, established and maintained pursuant to section Section 904 of the Social Security Act, as amended, any provisions of law in this State relating to the deposit, administration, release or disbursement of moneys money in the possession or custody of this State to the contrary notwithstanding. The benefit account shall