Field v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review
Field v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
This dispute arises over the number of weeks of unemployment compensation benefits to which appellant is entitled. Both parties agree that the maximum amount allowed under the basic state program as well as the state and federal extension programs then in effect, was sixty-five weeks.
When a person makes application for unemployment compensation benefits, the Bureau of Employment Security (Bureau) will issue a “Notice of Financial Determination.” These notices indicate eligibility, the amount of benefits per week, the number of weeks of eligibility, as well as other information pertinent to the unemployment compensation claim.
The apparent reason for the notices totaling seventy-eight weeks of compensation is that initially the Federal Supplemental Benefits Program was only to be thirteen weeks long. In June of 1975 it was extended from thirteen weeks to twenty-six weeks.
Accordingly, we will enter the following ■
Order
Now, March 29, 1977, the order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Number B-130519, dated March 24, 1976, is affirmed.
This computation is arrived at by adding the number of weeks of benefits allowed under: (1) the basic Unemployment Compensation Program, which was thirty- weeks, Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, 43 P.S. §804; (2) the Pennsylvania Extended Benefits Program, which was nine weeks, 43 P.S. §811; and (3) the Federal Supplemental Benefits program, which while thirteen weeks initially, was raised to twenty-six weeks, under the Federal Program to Supplement State benefits instituted by Title II of the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974, 26 U.S.C. §3304 note. This totals sixty-five weeks.
These notices are not in the record but can be found in appellant’s second brief. Had these notices been in the record it would have become abundantly clear to appellees why the appellant was contesting the termination of her benefits in September of 1975.
See supra, note 1.
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