Opinion
November 14, 1963.
December 12, 1963.
Unemployment Compensation — Voluntary termination of employment — Voluntary retirement — Unemployment Compensation Law.
In this case, in which it appeared that claimant, who was sixty-three years of age, voluntarily requested his retirement, although he could have continued his employment until age sixty-five had he desired to do so, it was Held that the compensation authorities properly concluded that claimant voluntarily retired from his employment, and that he was therefore disqualified from receiving benefits under the provisions of § 402(b)(1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law.
Before RHODES, P.J., ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ.
Appeal, No. 275, April T., 1963, by claimant, from decision of Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, No. B-79691, in re claim of Daniel H. Walker. Decision affirmed.
Daniel H. Walker, appellant, in propria persona, submitted a brief.
Sydney Reuben, Assistant Attorney General, with him Walter E. Alessandroni, Attorney General, for Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, appellee.
Argued November 14, 1963.
In this unemployment compensation case the bureau, the referee and the board all concluded that the appellant voluntarily retired from his last employment and that he was therefore disqualified from receiving benefits under the provisions of § 402(b)(1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 P. S. § 802(b)(1).
The record clearly reveals that the appellant, who was 63 years of age, voluntarily requested his retirement, although he could have continued his employment until age 65 had he desired to do so.
This case is ruled by Yeager Unemployment Compensation Case, 196 Pa. Super. 162, 173 A.2d 802; Craven Unemployment Compensation Case, 195 Pa. Super. 136, 169 A.2d 336; Zelek Unemployment Compensation Case, 194 Pa. Super. 228, 166 A.2d 110.
Decision affirmed.