In re the Claim of Rommeney

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed September 12, 2008, which disqualified claimant from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because she voluntarily left her employment without good cause.

Claimant worked at the front desk of a doctor’s office for 21h years. After she lost her rent stabilized apartment in Brooklyn, she was purportedly unable to find affordable housing in Staten Island near her place of employment. Consequently, she resigned from her position and moved to Florida to live with her mother. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board…