In re the Claim of Johnston

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed November 16, 2000, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because she voluntarily left her employment without good cause.

Claimant began her employment as a secretary in August 1999. Due to the increasing anxiety and loneliness she experienced as the result of living on her own far from her family, claimant quit her job and returned to Oregon where her parents resided. She subsequently applied for unemployment insurance benefits based on the representation that she had…