Munoz-Navarette v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office

Opinion by

Judge DUBOFSKY.

Paula M. Munoz-Navarette, claimant, seeks review of a final order of the Industrial Claim Appeals Panel which denied her request for waiver of the recovery of an overpayment of unemployment compensation benefits. We set aside the order.

Claimant lost her job in December 1988. She filed a claim for unemployment compensation that month and received benefits from December 1988 through March 1989.

The initial decision of the Labor Department granted claimant a full award of benefits from which the employer appealed. On that appeal, in March 1989, the referee reversed the…