In re the Claim of Bellamy

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 10, 2005, which, inter alia, denied claimant’s application to reopen a previous decision ruling that he was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he was unable to file a valid original claim pursuant to Labor Law § 527.

Claimant was terminated from his job as a teacher and received his last paycheck on August 31, 2001. He filed a claim for unemployment insurance benefits effective September 1, 2003. A hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (hereinafter ALJ) was conducted in January 2004 at…