Bucks County Bank & Trust Co. v. Stanislaw

KELTON, J.,

In Blake v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare, 63 Pa. Commw. 491, 439 A.2d 1262 (1981), the court held that workmen’s compensation claim benefits were exempt from execution by an attaching creditor not only prior to payment of the benefits to the compensation claimant but even after receipt of the funds.

The question before us in the instant case is whether this immunity from attachment continues after a claimant has transferred the funds without consideration from himself to his wife.

We hold that the funds continue to be exempt.

There is no significant…