Kurtz v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV.

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Does a claimant remain eligible for unemployment compensation, on the basis that a job termination was for a necessitous and compelling cause, where the claimant has quit in order to marry and join a spouse employed in a distant location?

Claimant Mary E. Kurtz has appealed a denial of her unemployment compensation claim, issued by a referee and the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review on the ground that her unemployment was “due to voluntarily leaving work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature . . . .” Section 402(b)(1) of the Unemployment…