Swackhammer v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

Russell L. Swaekhammer, Hazel D. Ellenberger and Cynthia Lynn Floravit (Claimants) appeal from Unemployment Compensation Board of Review decisions which affirmed a referee’s determinations that Claimants were financially ineligible for benefits under Section 404 of the Unemployment Compensation Law (Law).1

The sole question is whether workmen’s compensation benefit payments were improperly excluded *295from the calculation of base year wages for the purposes of determining Claimants’ financial eligibility for unemployment compensation. To qualify for unemployment…