In re the Claim of Stasko

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed February 23, 1998, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he was not totally unemployed.

Claimant’s former employment ended under nondisqualifying circumstances and, the week before he filed an original claim for unemployment benefits, he and two other individuals incorporated a computer consulting and resale business of which claimant was president and a one-third shareholder. Claimant invested $7,000 to start the business, used his home address as the…