In re the Claim of Armienti

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed February 9, 1999, which, inter alia, reduced claimant’s right to receive future unemployment insurance benefits because he made a willful misrepresentation.

After having been found eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits, claimant was directed to use a touch-tone telephone to certify his continued eligibility. Because claimant was hearing impaired and English was not his native language, claimant enlisted the assistance of his daughter in setting up his confidential personal identification number and in…