In re the Claim of Johnson

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 19, 2001, which denied claimant’s application to reopen a previous default decision ruling that she was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because she had insufficient weeks of covered employment.

Whether to grant an application to reopen a decision is within the discretion of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board and, absent any abuse of discretion, the Board’s decision will not be disturbed (see Matter of Gbolo [Commissioner of Labor], 272 AD2d 775; Matter of Collins [Commissioner of…