In re the Claim of Hammer

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed November 5, 1998, which, inter alia, reduced claimant’s weekly unemployment insurance benefit rate to zero.

Substantial evidence supports the decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board reducing claimant’s benefit rate to zero. The record establishes that claimant’s pension was totally funded by his employer and that the amount of his pension payments exceeded the maximum weekly unemployment benefit rate of $300 (see, Labor Law § 590 [5]). Accordingly, claimant’s unemployment insurance benefits were properly…