UI: Monetary Determinations

Board reversed denial by RE of dependency allowance for claimant.  RE had ruled that because claimant received more in public assistance benefits than she had earned from employment, she was ineligible for dependency allowance because the government, not she, had paid more than 50 percent of…

Claimant's voluntary quit not for good cause where her employer rescheduled her hours during a time when the claimant could not work, despite claimant initially providing a schedule of hours, as employer asked for a written schedule of hours when claimant could work, which claimant did not…

A constructive deduction is applied when a claimant is separated under disqualifying circumstances from part-time employment newly obtained during the benefit year. 430 CMR § 4.76(1)(a)(ii).

Claimant was fired and disqualified from UI; found new work, but at a wage that never exceeded what would have been her weekly benefit rate; was laid off over a year later and was denied UI benefits based on the previous disqualification. BOR holds that disqualification is lifted once a claimant…

This is a rare decision overturning a church-related organization's claim of exemption from the UC system under G.L. c. 151A, §6(r). Claimant worked for as a director of residential services iin a home for developmentally disabled people. Employer was a separately incorporated, church-related…