Anyone ever have their former employer appeal your eligibility for unemployment benefits?? **UPDATE**

[codeyf]

Wanted to know if anyone has gone through this before. Lost my job back in July of last year. Had applied for UE. Had to wait for 2 months or so, was finally approved due to no response from employer saying otherwise.

Then in mid October I get a letter saying that they're appealing my eligibility. By this time I had secured another job, but had collected roughly $4400 in benefits.

I'm wondering, even if it's found I wasn't eligible, should I be held responsible for my former employer not responding? Thus having to pay back the $$??

Any (serious) input or advice would be appreciated, as my phone hearing is monday morning.

Because of non-response from my former employer, the state deemed me eligible for benefits. What i've been told, is that it is now up to my former employer to prove otherwise (at this point, some other agency is handling/filing the appeal).


OMFG!!! What a coincidence!!! Just had a voice mail on my cell. Wife called. Office of Administrative Hearings called (my hearing was scheduled for monday). The Agency withdrew their dispute!!!!

WHEW! What a relief! Such a stressfull thing thinking that somehow someway I'd have to pay back the $4400 I collected. Just a coincidence I guess that I got the call now.

 

[tm37]

My former emploter appealed due to the fact he claimed I quit.

I was fired for going to an interveiw.

When I got the letter I called and asked and was told I would not have to pay anything back if I lost.

I won though.

What are their grounds for the appeal?

 

[Evadman]

You will not have to pay any $ you have already recieved. But you will nto recieve any more. I think you still have to certify even if an appeal has been filed.

 

[kleinesarschloch]

place an anonymous call with the BSA and say the company is using tons of pirated software.
if they have anything to do with food, you can probably make some calls to the food inspection agency or something.

 

[codeyf]

I got busted with some mp3'z and a couple movies on my PC. They called me in and said I had to remove any movies, music and/or games from my PC, which I then did. Then they fired me for having personal software on my PC.

You should've seen the look on the IT guys face when I pointed out that the screen shot of all the files on my pc, was nothing but a bunch of shortcuts

I had some little app on my PC that showed my PC's stats. One of them being free/avail HD space......and sure enough, right there, showed 18+ gigs free, 20 gigs total. Yet they said I had several 700+ mb movie files on my PC still.....

"....Oh....yeah.....you're right. These are just shortcuts......but you still have this app on your pc and it isn't a work app"

 

[SuperTool]

Somebody explain this to me. Who pays the unemployment? I thought it came out of some taxes that we pay for it?
Why would an employer want to appeal it?

 

[codeyf]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
Somebody explain this to me. Who pays the unemployment? I thought it came out of some taxes that we pay for it?
Why would an employer want to appeal it?

I believe it is charged to the company in some form or another. How, I have no idea.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: codeyf

Originally posted by: SuperTool
Somebody explain this to me. Who pays the unemployment? I thought it came out of some taxes that we pay for it?
Why would an employer want to appeal it?

I believe it is charged to the company in some form or another. How, I have no idea.

The employer pays unemployment insurance which is a requirement of having employees. you also pay part of the unemployment as well.

 

[Vic]

Unemployment is a mandatory "insurance" paid for by your employer. The more claims your employer has to pay out, the higher their premiums and vice versa.

 

[SuperTool]

So what do you need to collect UE? How long do you have to work, what are the conditions? I gather if you quit, no UE for you .

 

[codeyf]

If you voluntarily leave, or are fired for violating a "rule" or whatever then you're not eligible.