In re the Claim of Mathis

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed February 13, 2012, which, among other things, charged claimant with a recoverable overpayment of unemployment insurance benefits upon finding that she made willful misrepresentations to obtain benefits.

Claimant was employed as a children’s services supervisor with the Ulster County Department of Social Services (hereinafter the employer). In June 2007, she was arrested and charged with felony and misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance after heroin was found in the car she was driving. Two…