In re the Claim of Lentini

Claimant filed a claim for unemployment insurance benefits after losing his job as a mechanical engineer. While collecting benefits, he performed various activities on behalf of his own engineering and consulting business. The Board subsequently found him ineligible to receive benefits because he was not totally unemployed, charged him with a recoverable overpayment of $17,380 and reduced his right to receive future benefits because he made wilfully false statements. Claimant argues that the Board violated his right to due process and equal protection in concluding that he was not totally…