In re the Claim of Skutnik

The claimants herein (seventy-five in number) have appealed from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board which affirmed a referee’s decision sustaining respondent’s determination as of December 1, 1942, to the effect that they were not entitled to, and which directed them to repay, certain unemployment insurance benefits theretofore granted to and received by them, in that, for the periods for which the benefits had been granted, they had not been totally unemployed within the terms and meaning of the statute, viz: subdivision 10 of section 502 of article 18 of the Labor Law as…