Chamberlain v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

OPINION

Justice BAER.

This appeal presents the issue of whether a claimant sentenced to house arrest is “incarcerated” for purposes of Section 402.6 of the Unemployment Compensation Law (UC Law),1 and, thus, is disqualified from receiving unemployment *492compensation benefits. Mindful of the remedial purpose of the UC Law, the Commonwealth Court held that a claimant sentenced to house arrest is not “incarcerated” under Section 402.6. Because the terms and conditions of the claimant’s house arrest did not otherwise prevent him from satisfying the statutory requirements for obtaining unemployment…