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Unemployment Appeal Hearing.?

My case is a little different from most that I've read here. I had already been receiving benefits from California Unemployment for a couple months already, When the time came to have the in-person interview with a representative from the unemployment office. I planned for it weeks ahead, but when the day actually came, I COMPLETELY FORGOT. I called the very next day, as soon as I remembered, and spoke to a very nice man about it. He explained to me that the main reason for the interview was to ask a few questions, and to make sure that I was registered with the online job search engine - Cal-Jobs. Since my case was pretty simple and I had full cooperation from my previous job, there wasn't really anything else to ask me. I informed him that I was indeed registered with Cal-jobs, so he told me everything should be fine. I kept receiving my checks, but also received a letter stating that I was to have another phone interview, to discuss why I failed to show up for the in person interview. As my luck would have it, my touch-screen phone started effing up on me. I received the call and said "hello" 3 times, and there was silence. Then the other person hung up and I received a voicemail from the rep. stating that they called for my scheduled phone interview and I didn't pick up. I WAS FURIOUS! Needless to say, I have a new phone. A week later I received a letter stating that it was decided by unemployment that my benefits were now denied due to failing to register with Cal-jobs - which I had! I appealed the decision, and now I have a hearing scheduled next week. I will be out of town, so it's an over the phone hearing and I'm beginning to get really nervous because I've never done anything like this. All this technical stuff really freaks me out, If anyone has been in a situation like this or anything close to it, I'd like some insight as to what the hearing might be like. Part of me feels like I have no chance at all, it's my word against theirs, cant they just lie and say I didn't register by the required date? - case closed? SORRY SO LONG! Just thought I had to explain it all so it the situation was understandable. Thanks!

Public Comments

1. Unless you can convince them to do the interview this week, you will have to stay in town. such a small price to pay for free money, or you can give it back