In re the Claim of Akley

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed July 25, 1997, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because she did not have sufficient weeks of covered employment to file a valid original claim.

Claimant filed the subject unemployment insurance claim on October 8, 1993, alleging that she worked as a bookkeeper and office manager for her husband’s pool construction business from April 12, 1993 through September 24, 1993.* Claimant asserted that she worked 20 weeks during the applicable base period at a salary…