McCarthy v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

OPINION BY

Judge COHN.

Clare McCarthy (Claimant) appeals from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) that affirmed a Referee’s decision denying unemployment compensation (UC) benefits on the basis that Claimant was ineligible under Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law (Law). 1 The issue before us is whether a claimant, who leaves her job in order to preserve her retirement health care benefits when her employer unilaterally eliminates her entitlement to those benefits, has a necessitous and compelling reason to quit. We hold that she does.

Claimant was…