Gearhart Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an unemployment compensation appeal in which the Bureau of Employment Security determined that the claimant was not entitled to benefits because she was unable to work and unavailable for suitable work as required by the provisions of §401 (d) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 PS §801 (d). The referee reversed and allowed benefits but the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review reversed the referee and denied benefits for the same reason as the Bureau.

Martha B. Gearhart, the claimant, was last employed on August 12, 1959, as a part-time worker by the A &…