In re the Claim of Maldarelli

*960Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed May 5, 2003, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant made a willful false statement to obtain unemployment insurance benefits.

Claimant began receiving pension benefits, fully funded by her former employer, effective February 1, 2001. Nonetheless, on February 26, 2001, she filed an original claim for unemployment insurance benefits, at which time she answered “no” to the question of whether she was currently receiving pension benefits. Unemployment insurance benefits were then awarded to claimant.

In March 2002, claimant…