In re the Claim of Lahr

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 23, 2011, which ruled, among other things, that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he was not totally unemployed.

Claimant received unemployment insurance benefits beginning in 2009 and, in February 2010, agreed to work as an independent contractor employed to sell real estate and began training in furtherance of that goal. Despite those efforts, he continued to certify that he was not working and collect benefits for several more weeks. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal…