In re the Claim of Benton

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed January 31, 1997, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant was employed as a live-in aide by the employer, a home health care agency. Her job entailed caring for clients of the agency on a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week basis. Claimant was originally discharged on August 8,1996, after the employer learned that she had incurred approximately $995 in charges on two of her clients’ telephone accounts. While claimant…