In re the Claim of Picardi

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed February 1, 1974, which reversed the decision of a referee and affirmed the initial determination of the Industrial Commissioner holding claimant ineligible to receive benefits effective April 26, 1971 to May 7, 1972 and October 23, 1972 to February 18, 1973 because she was not totally unemployed, charging her with an overpayment of $2,744 in benefits ruled to be recoverable, and holding that she willfully made false statements to receive benefits. The board found that claimant’s periods of unemployment were contrived…