Has anyone ever had luck filing an appeal with the Texas Workforce Commission?

[BentBow]

Government agencies work very well and very efficient and no waste of tax payer(someone else's) money.

We should all be government employees!
Job security!


Where is the unemployment benefits for those misclassified as subcontractors by their employers, to skate the added cost of an employee?

Our governments priorities are screwed up!

[TexanWorker]

If your Unemployment Benefits Case is denied, whatever you do, appeal it and GET A LAWYER to attend the very first phone hearing!!! Get as much evidence as you can, first hand witnesses, documents, reports, internet research, etc., and get all the rules and details of your case in order. Write it very clearly in logical sequence, and if you were a very good employee, make sure that they know how good you were. Then fight for what is yours!

Don't expect that the Hearing Officer will have even read or reviewed the details of your case, because many of them do not even care, and they start the hearing not even knowing what it is about. They are ready to side with the employer and deny anyone their benefits if they can find a way. They can ignore all the evidence in your case for no reason, like they did in my case. I was fired for using a clean, safe and non-toxic plastic jug to serve tea. I was fired without any warning and for no reason. I explained my case very well in writing (twice).

The Hearing Officer was an irrational, over-emotional, rude woman who was yelling at me and badgering me during the phone hearing. My employer was not even arguing with me, the Hearing Officer was arguing with me and attacking me. I had difficulty even presenting my evidence, and she even threatened to throw out my evidence for no reason at all. My evidence was quite excellent and my employer had no legal evidence of any kind.

Get a lawyer lined up for the phone hearing as soon as possible! Your lawyer can stop them from denying you for no reason, like they did in my case. There are affordable unemployment lawyers who will charge a flat rate of $350 for one phone hearing. Make sure you get a lawyer and come out fighting, because even if you are right and did not have misconduct, and did not break any workplace policies, they will deny you because they can, and they probably make a profit from denying people their benefits.

The unemployment benefits process has become very biased and TWC Hearing Officers are frequently taking sides with the employer. The government funds for unemployment benefits are set to expire by Jan. 1st, and that may be why they are denying so many cases for no reason. I'm not sure how long this has been going on, but it did not used to be this way.

I had a right to a fair hearing, and I had a right to receive my unemployment benefits like anyone else who qualifies and did not have any misconduct related to work. Start with a lawyer and it will be over very quickly, otherwise it will be too late, and it will be difficult to find a lawyer who will take your case, (unless you have money), and unemployed people are usually quite broke. Best wishes, J

[usedtowork]

Has anyone had a missed call from TWC during an appeal? I called in 30 minutes before my meeting to register for the appeal. Sat my phone down, started reading over paperwork. An hour later, no phone call, so I called back, only to find out they had "tried" to call me 4 times and left 4 voicemails. My phone still showed zero missed calls and at that point, zero voicemails. About 15 minutes after I hung up, my phone beeped and the missing voicemails showed up, still never showing a missed call at all. I have never had a problem with sketchy service in my home and cannot for the life of me, figure out how I had it happen not once, but four times. I'm convinced that since my employer is a HUGE world-wide company, they paid off someone to ring directly to my voicemail and bypass the hearing so I couldn't have my time. I know, conspiracy theory, but I was fired for something stupid after 23 years of excellent performance reviews and having never been written up. Has this happened to anyone else?

[Carrismith40]

I won my appeal and thought all was well. However I am still waiting for my back pay. Now im told to file a mew appeal for the same one i already won. I am stil not receiving any funds since Oct 2017. And apparently they keep misplacing the paperwork.