Holton v. Department of Employment & Training

¶ 1. Employer, Town of Vernon, appeals from the Employment Security Board’s decision to award unemployment benefits to a former town employee that the town claims was ineligible to receive benefits. The Department of Employment and Training (Department) has already paid all the disputed benefits to the former employee pursuant to the Board’s decision ánd related state and federal law requiring prompt payment of benefits to a claimant after the first adversarial administrative determination that the claimant is eligible. The Department therefore moves to dismiss the appeal as moot because, as…