In re the Claim of Suri

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed February 13, 2003, which, upon reconsidera*745tion, adhered to its prior decision ruling, inter alia, that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he was not totally unemployed.

In his October 2001 application for unemployment insurance benefits, claimant represented that he had been laid off from a company called Fiberart, Inc. Thereafter, he received unemployment insurance benefits totaling $10,935. Subsequently, the Department of Labor conducted an investigation and discovered that…