Silvio Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

On May 1, 1959, the Bureau of Employment Security mailed a notice to this claimant informing him that his claim for unemployment compensation benefits had been denied because he had been discharged for willful misconduct. The claimant sent an envelope, to the bureau’s Pittsburgh office postmarked May 12, 1959, at 3:30 P.M., containing a letter which was treated as an appeal.

The appeal was quashed because it was not filed within the ten day period provided by section 501(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law of 1936, as amended, 43 PS §821 (e). After the board affirmed…