In re the Claim of Forsythe

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed September 10, 1999, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he was not totally unemployed.

Claimant was employed as a seasonal union carpenter and applied for unemployment insurance benefits during the time in which he was unemployed. In the meantime, claimant formed his own business as a general contractor building custom homes. The record reveals that claimant wrote various checks on behalf of this business, met with clients and periodically received…