The opinion
Cite as 2024 Ark. App. 327
ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
DIVISION I
No. E-23-187
JENNIFER M. BARNES Opinion Delivered May 22, 2024
APPELLANT
APPEAL FROM THE ARKANSAS
BOARD OF REVIEW
V. [NO. 2023-BR-00012]
DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF
WORKFORCE SERVICES
APPELLEE REMANDED TO SETTLE THE
RECORD
RAYMOND R. ABRAMSON, Judge
In this unbriefed employment-security-division case, Jennifer M. Barnes appeals the
Arkansas Board of Review’s (the Board’s) decision dismissing her appeal as untimely. This is
a companion case to Barnes v. Director, E-23-186 (affirmed without written opinion), and
Barnes v. Director, 2024 Ark. App. 335, also handed down today. In conformity with our
decision in Barnes v. Director, 2024 Ark. App. 335, we remand to the Board to settle the
record.
On October 26, 2021, the Division of Workforce Services issued a notice of agency
determination denying Barnes’s request for benefits on finding that she voluntarily left her
last work without good cause connected with the work. Barnes appealed the decision, and
on January18, 2022, the Appeal Tribunal dismissed the appeal as untimely. Barnes appealed
to the Board.
In March 2023, a hearing was held, and on April 3, 2023, the Board issued a decision
finding that Barnes untimely appealed to the Board. Barnes appealed to this court. However,
on July 19, 2023, we remanded to the Board to correct the record because the transcript of
the March hearing was not in the record.
On August 10, 2023, another hearing was held, and on August 11, the Board issued
a decision again dismissing Barnes’s appeal as untimely. The appeal is now before this court.
However, the August 11 decision references Barnes’s separate case concerning the appeal of
the nonfraud overpayment determination requiring her to repay $7,549 in benefits.1 The
decision does not reference the notice of agency determination denying Barnes’s request for
benefits on finding that she voluntarily left last work without good cause—which is the
relevant claim in this case. Given this error, we remand this case to the Board to settle the
record to reflect the claim at issue.
Remanded to settle the record.
GRUBER and WOOD, JJ., agree.
Jennifer M. Barmes, pro se appellant.
Cynthia L. Uhrynowycz, Associate General Counsel, for appellee.
1
The $7,549 overpayment decision is the subject of Barnes’s appeal in E-23-186,
which we affirm in our per curiam decisions issued without written opinion.
2