Matter of Weess (Commr. of Labor)

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 31, 2014, which denied claimant’s application for a waiver of repayment of recoverable emergency unemployment compensation benefits.

Claimant was awarded unemployment insurance benefits in 2011. She was subsequently found to have made willful misrepresentations in order to obtain benefits and was charged, as relevant here, with a recoverable overpayment of $18,123.75 in federally funded emergency unemployment compensation benefits (see Pub L 110-252, tit IV, § 4001 et seq., 122 US Stat 2323). Claimant did not…