Harmon v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review

JUSTICE MUNDY, Dissenting

Section 402.6, titled "Ineligibility of Incarcerated Employe," of the Unemployment Compensation Act, states "[a]n employe shall not be eligible for payment of unemployment compensation benefits for any weeks of unemployment during which the employe is incarcerated after a conviction." 43 P.S. § 802.6(a). Despite the ambiguity analysis of the word "during" espoused by the Majority, in my view, a plain reading of this statute is unambiguous. See 1 Pa.C.S. § 1921 ("[w]hen the words of a statute are clear and free from all ambiguity, the letter of it is not to be…