Your former employer, has appealed the Department’s decision finding you eligible for unemployment insurance benefits. If you are otherwise eligible, you will continue to receive benefits for each week you are unemployed and submit a claim form. If the Administrative Law Judge who presides over your employer’s appeal hearing finds you are not eligible, your benefits will stop. You may be required to repay to the Department benefits received after the date this notice is issued. Enclosed is a copy of the Notice of Determination your employer is appealing.

The employer’s appeal has been sent to the Office of Appeals. Their telephone number is . The Office of Appeals will send you a copy of the appeal and a notice showing the date, time, and place of the hearing. Make every effort to attend the hearing. The judge bases his or her decision about your eligibility on the evidence presented at the hearing. During the hearing, you, your employer and any witness will be allowed to explain the facts and present written support of the facts. Please direct questions regarding this appeal to the Office of Appeals.