In re the Claim of Hughes

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed August 19, 1998, which, inter alia, upon reconsideration, adhered to its prior decision reducing 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 *534wholly funded by his base period employers and claimant did not have the option of directly receiving the employer contributions. In addition, the amount of claimant’s pension payments…