Allison v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

In this unemployment compensation appeal, the claimant1 questions the board’s2 affirmance of a referee’s decision dismissing his appeal, from a redeter-mination of his benefit rate, as untimely.3

On December 8, 1977, the Office of Employment Security had revised the claimant’s benefit rate and thereupon issued notice of the redetermination. That notice specified that the last day for an appeal was December 23, 1977; the claimant did not appeal until May 16, 1979, almost seventeen months later.

The claimant nevertheless urges that we allow his appeal. To obtain such an…