In re the Claim of Zimmermann

Appeal is taken by claimant from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board which (1) disqualified claimant from benefits on the ground that he refused employment without good cause (Labor Law, § 593, subd. 2) and (2) imposed a forfeiture of 20 effective days in reduction of claimant’s future benefit rights, upon finding that claimant willfully made a false statement to obtain benefits (Labor Law, § 594).

The evidence was in sharp conflict and the board chose to accept that adduced from the employment interviewer Hill and from the prospective employer to whom claimant was referred,…