Unemployment Benefits – Untimely Appeal 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, August 10, 2009
By Minnesota Lawyer
Tags: Unemployment Benefits

Where department records showed that claimant filed his appeal more than two weeks after the deadline; at the hearing before the ULJ, claimant testified that he filed an appeal by internet before the deadline; and after the hearing, claimant submitted two documents purportedly showing that he had filed his appeal via the Internet before the deadline; we conclude that the ULJ did not err in dismissing the appeal as untimely because the ULJ provided valid reasons for not crediting the documents submitted by claimant, and we defer to the ULJ’s credibility determinations. Affirmed.