Dowdy v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

April Dowdy petitions this court for relief from an agency decision that she was ineligible for unemployment compensation. The ineligibility ruling was made by a Department of Employment Services (DOES) Appeals Examiner after that agency had paid out almost three months of benefits on petitioner’s claim. Petitioner’s initial contention is that the ineligibility decision was wrong. If that argument- fails, petitioner asks us to hold that, in any event, DOES is without power to recoup the overpaid amount, because it paid out the funds through its own error and not through any misrepresentation…