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Cite as 2023 Ark. App. 300
ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
DIVISION I
No. E-22-246
NANCY GRIFFIN OPINION DELIVERED MAY 24, 2023
APPELLANT
V. APPEAL FROM THE ARKANSAS
BOARD OF REVIEW
[NO. 2021-BR-05226]
DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF
WORKFORCE SERVICES
APPELLEE REVERSED AND REMANDED
ROBERT J. GLADWIN, Judge
The Arkansas Board of Review (Board) affirmed the denial of Pandemic Emergency
Unemployment Compensation (“PECU”) benefits after the Appeal Tribunal found
appellant Nancy Griffin unavailable for work beginning December 27, 2020. We reverse and
remand this case to the Board to make sufficient findings of fact and conclusions of law.
In its decision, the Board recites the testimony presented at the hearing, and then
simply states that the record contains a “sufficient basis to find” that the appellant was
unavailable for work. It further states, “[T]he Board concludes that the decision made by the
Appeal Tribunal in Appeal No. 2021-AT-21107, should be affirmed.”
The Board must make findings of fact for this court to review. See Ferren v. Dir., 59
Ark. App. 213, 956 S.W.2d 198 (1997). A conclusory statement that does not detail or
analyze the facts upon which it is based is not sufficient. Id. The Board failed to make any
findings of fact; failed to adopt the Appeal Tribunal’s findings of fact; and failed to
specifically address appellant’s contention that she checked the wrong box.
Because we are unable to determine the facts upon which the Board relied, we reverse
and remand for the Board to make specific findings of fact and conclusions of law.
Reversed and remanded.
KLAPPENBACH and GRUBER, JJ., agree.
Nancy J. Griffin, pro se appellant.
Cynthia L. Uhrynowycz, Associate General Counsel, for appellee.
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