In re the Claim of Lipford

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed March 24, 1999, which dismissed claimant’s appeal from a decision of an Administrative Law Judge as untimely.

By decision dated and mailed on February 7, 1996, an Administrative Law Judge (hereinafter ALJ) ruled, inter alla, that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits. Claimant appealed the ALJ’s decision to the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board on January 14, 1999 and, in a statement accompanying her notice of appeal, stated that she “did not request an appeal sooner because I had…