Appeal Provisions

You have a right to appeal from any determination or redetermination made with respect to your benefit rights. Your appeal must be filed within ten calendar days from the date the determination was issued. Do not delay your appeal. If it is late, the Commission has no authority to reconsider it. (See Appeals Information for Employers for more information.)

There is no charge made for any appeal. The local Workforce Center will advise and assist you when filing an appeal.

If you file an appeal, you must continue to report to the Workforce Center as instructed and file a timely claim each week. If you fail to report to the local office as instructed or fail to file timely claims, you will not be paid. When you file a claim for benefits, your bona fide employer (the last employer to pay you at least 8 times your weekly benefit amount) is notified, and he may protest the payment of benefits to you.

If your employer files an appeal from a decision holding you eligible for benefits, you will be notified. This agency will continue to pay benefits to you pending the result of the appeal. If you are held to be ineligible for benefits, you will have to repay these benefits to the Commission.

There are three levels of appeals:

• Non-monetary determinations may be appealed to the Appeals Tribunal;
• Appeals Tribunal decisions may be appealed to the Commission;
• Commission decisions may be appealed to the Court of Common Pleas.

You may file an appeal at your local office or by a letter addressed to: Appeals Tribunal, P.O. Box 995, Columbia, S.C. 29202. (See Appeals Information for Employers for more information.)

A letter requesting an appeal must include your name and social security number and the date of the determination you wish to appeal. All letters must be signed by the claimant.