Unemployment insurance benefits: determination: appeals.

(1) Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to pay unemployment compensation benefits to eligible claimants. Existing law requires the department to make a prompt notification of various rulings, determinations, and computations, including a notification to an employer of a department ruling or determination as to the cause of a claimant's termination of employment, and a notification to a claimant of the determination of the claimant's eligibility for benefits, as specified. Existing law authorizes reconsideration of a determination of eligibility within 20 days after mailing a notice of a determination. Existing law also authorizes an appeal from a ruling, determination, or computation within 20 days of a notice, as specified, and authorizes an extension of this deadline for good cause. This bill would extend the deadline for a reconsideration or for an appeal of the above-described rulings, determinations, and computations to 30 days, on or after July 1, 2015. (2) Existing law requires an administrative law judge to affirm, reverse, modify, or set aside an appeal of a determination of eligibility for benefits and requires the administrative law judge to notify certain parties of the decision, as specified. This decision becomes final unless a further appeal is initiated to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board within 20 days, as specified. This bill would, on and after July 1, 2015, extend the deadline for appeal to the board to 30 days.