In re the Claim of Wersba

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board disqualifying claimants from benefits on the ground that there was a lack of total unemployment. Claimants are husband and wife. Both are in their 70’s and receive Social Security. After apparently retiring from his hosiery business, the husband Charles, worked selling ice cream and other products from a truck. For several years he operated the business which was variously called self-employment by Charles, sole owner by Sally, his wife, and a partnership. The truck, the only apparent asset, was in -Sally’s name because of…