In re the Claim of Burke

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed April 18, 1975, which affirmed the decision of a referee sustaining an initial determination of the Industrial Commissioner holding claimant ineligible to receive benefits because he was not totally unemployed, charging him with an overpayment of $600 in benefits ruled recoverable, and holding that he willfully made false statements to obtain benefits for which a forfeiture of 60 effective days was imposed. The board’s finding that claimant performed services for a family owned business in return for room, board and…