Barrett v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is an appeal by James J. Barrett (claimant) from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Beview (Board) which affirmed a referee’s denial of unemployment compensation benefits. Benefits were denied pursuant to Section 402(h) of the Unemployment Compensation Law,1 which provides in pertinent part:

An employe shall be ineligible for compensation for any week—

*431(h) In which he is engaged in self-employment. . . .

The Board concluded that the claimant was self-employed in that he was an unemployed businessman and not an unemployed employee. This appeal followed.

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