Millar v. New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions

OPINION

VANZI, Judge.

The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions (DWS) appeals from a district court order reversing a decision of the DWS’s Appeals Tribunal (Tribunal). The Tribunal determined that claimant Frank Millar was required to repay an overpayment of unemployment compensation benefits in the amount of $4,931. The district court held that the Tribunal’s hearing, conducted five months after Millar started receiving benefits, violated the timeliness requirements for processing appeal claims under state and federal law. In the alternative, the district court found that the doctrine…