UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE - HEARING AND APPEAL - REQUEST FOR HEARING - CASE NO. 3

Lesson No. 2 - Because obtaining Unemployment Insurance benefits can be a process, if you have been denied benefits at the DOL level, the appeal process will not give you immediate relief.

This is one of the hardest lessons. It is bad enough that a Claimant has lost employment and income. It is bad enough that Claimant is not able to obtain new employment. It is worse when, in addition to the above, the DOL has denied benefits (which many know is not the same as having a job - the most you receive right now in NY with federal assistance is $430 per week for a set time).

In this case, the Claimant lost everything - job, home, mental health - and was on public assistance (and with the award of back benefits, there is the issue of how DSS will handle this). So the question is - what does one do when one has been denied benefits at the DOL level and is not able to obtain new employment?