In re the Claim of Christophides

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed July 3, 1996, which, upon reconsideration, adhered to its prior decision ruling that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he failed to file a valid original claim.

Claimant ran his own business until December 1990, when he closed it down and became unemployed. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board ruled that claimant’s application for unemployment insurance benefits, not filed until July 1992, was invalid because claimant had no weeks of employment of any kind during the previous…