Lewis v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review

In Lewis v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review, 814 A.2d 829 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2003), a claimant who suffered from cognitive disorder, learning disorder, spelling disorder, reading disorder, mathematics disorder and a mixed anxiety-depressive disorder, who misspelled her own last name when she gave testimony, filed her appeal only four days late. When questioned as to why her appeal was late she explained that because she was confused by the unemployment forms: she called the unemployment office several times for help; she solicited others for help, going so far as to take her appeal form to her school to solicit help from a teacher; she filled out the form to the best of her ability, then called the unemployment office again to make sure that she filled out the form properly; and she called the unemployment office on the date of her filing to determine whether they would accept her appeal form.