In re the Claim of Hagan

Yesawich, Jr., J.

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 18, 1984, which ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive benefits because he did not file a valid original claim.

Claimant had been employed as a dock worker for a private parcel delivery service until August 2, 1982, when he sustained a compensable back injury. After receiving workers’ compensation benefits through 1983, claimant, in February 1984, resigned from his position, which still remained available to him, to accept a $42,000 lump sum severance payment because of a reorganization by the…