In re the Claim of Connors

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed January 20, 1998; which ruled that claimant’s request for a hearing was untimely.

By notices mailed September 30, 1994 and October 3, 1994, claimant was found to be ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because she did not have sufficient weeks of covered employment in her base period to file a valid original claim and was therefore charged with a recoverable overpayment of benefits. Although claimant testified that she tried to explain her situation to the local unemployment insurance office through…