In re the Claim of Tetlow

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed March 7, 2007, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because she voluntarily left her employment without good cause.

Claimant worked as a psychiatric technician at a hospital in New York City. On July 16, 2006, she submitted a letter informing her employer that she was resigning from her position because she was relocating to Florida. Her husband, who suffers from cancer, had moved to Florida two years earlier to be closer to family. Claimant deferred her move so that…