In re the Claim of Rivera

—Ap*682peal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 24, 1997, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because she did not file a valid original claim.

Claimant, a graduate of a foreign medical school, completed a three-year pediatric residency program at a State teaching hospital and thereafter filed a claim for unemployment insurance benefits. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive benefits because the residency fell within the exclusion set forth in Labor Law §…