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Summary:
Laudable as the efforts of the claimant to maintain employment might be, they provide no basis whatsoever for relief from the imposition of a penalty where an individual knowingly makes false or misleading statements to obtain UI benefits for use as "bridge financing" in his efforts to extricate himself and his family from financial difficulty. This was not, as the claimant indicates, a use of the "social safety net in an emergency situation" but rather a flagrant abuse of the UI program.
