CLAIMANT ENROLLED IN A BARBER TRAINING PROGRAM AFTER HIS REGULAR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS HAD RUN OUT, HE WAS NOT ENTITLED TO ADDITIONAL BENEFITS (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department determined claimant was not entitled to additional unemployment benefits in connection with his enrolling in a barber training program. Claimant did not enroll in the program until after his regular unemployment benefits had been exhausted:

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Labor Law § 599 provides an avenue whereby a claimant who participates in an approved training program may be eligible for additional unemployment insurance benefits after his or her regular benefits are exhausted” … . However, in order to receive benefits under this statute, the claimant “must have been accepted into an approved program, or demonstrated an application for such a program, while still receiving regular unemployment benefits” … . Here, it is undisputed that claimant’s regular unemployment benefits were exhausted more than a month before he filed his application for additional benefits under Labor Law § 599. In view of this, and in the absence of any legal authority excusing the delay, we find that substantial evidence supports the Board’s decision. Matter of Simpson (Commissioner of Labor), 2018 NY Slip Op 00594, Third Dept 2-1-18

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (CLAIMANT ENROLLED IN A BARBER TRAINING PROGRAM AFTER HIS REGULAR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS HAD RUN OUT, HE WAS NOT ENTITLED TO ADDITIONAL BENEFITS (THIRD DEPT))/TRAINING PROGRAMS (UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, CLAIMANT ENROLLED IN A BARBER TRAINING PROGRAM AFTER HIS REGULAR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS HAD RUN OUT, HE WAS NOT ENTITLED TO ADDITIONAL BENEFITS (THIRD DEPT))/LABOR LAW 599 (UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, CLAIMANT ENROLLED IN A BARBER TRAINING PROGRAM AFTER HIS REGULAR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS HAD RUN OUT, HE WAS NOT ENTITLED TO ADDITIONAL BENEFITS (THIRD DEPT))