In re the Claim of Berkmann

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed September 27, 2004, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because she voluntarily left her employment without good cause.

Claimant worked for a law firm as a part-time legal secretary. She left her job after her parents, with whom she, her disabled husband and her two children were living, relocated from New York to Pennsylvania. The denial of her application for unemployment insurance benefits was upheld by the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board on the ground that she…