Key legal question
Whether the claimant was entitled to a waiver of the repayment obligation for wrongly received unemployment benefits.
Extracted holding
No waiver was warranted because the claimant could not rely on good faith when receiving the benefits.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 25 ATSG in conjunction with Art. 95 AVIG, waiver requires good faith and hardship. The claimant, an experienced engineer and businessman, should have recognized that his position as shareholder and managing director could affect entitlement and should have clarified it; his failure amounted to more than slight negligence.