In re the Claim of Higgins

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed April 16, 1997, which rúled, inter alia, that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because she was not totally unemployed.

Claimant collected unemployment insurance benefits after being laid off from her employment as an office manager for her husband’s construction business. Claimant admitted that she continued to sign checks on behalf of the employer during this period. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board ruled that claimant was not totally unemployed and charged her with a recoverable…