In re the Claim of Wolo

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed November 13, 1989, which ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he was not totally unemployed, charged him with a recoverable overpayment of benefits and imposed a forfeiture of effective days as a penalty in reduction of future benefits.

The conclusion that claimant was in business for himself during the period he was receiving unemployment insurance benefits is amply supported by the record. Although on his application form for benefits he answered in the negative when…