Selden v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Basil H. -Selden (claimant), pro -se, appeals an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which denied him benefits under Section 402(h) of the Act.1 It found that he had increased his side-line employment -since the time when he was laid -off from -his position as a teacher with the Philadelphia School District, and that he was now to be considered as -self-employed.

Prior to being laid off, the claimant had sold encyclopedias for Field Enterprises, Chicago, Illinois, *627on an intermittent part-time basis .since 1970. The Board found that, .after being…