In re the Claim of Baim

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed July 10, 1989, which ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits, charged him with a recoverable overpayment of benefits, and imposed a forfeiture of effective days as a penalty in reduction of future benefits.

The record supports the conclusion that claimant was not totally unemployed. He admitted that at the time he was collecting benefits he worked for brief periods of time as a bartender. Although he was not paid for his services, they were sufficient to warrant denying him benefits…