Golden v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

OPINION by

Judgb MacPhail,

Carl L. Golden (Claimant) has appealed from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) affirming a referee’s denial of benefits under Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937), as amended, 43 P.S. §802 (b).1

The Board, in its brief, concedes2 that the referee failed to comply with 34 Pa. Code §101.21 (a) which *441requires the referee to give an unrepresented claimant certain instructions regarding his rights. In Katz v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 59 Pa. Commonwealth…