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My brother is having serious spinal back surgery. He needs full time care for up to 8 months after surgery. I had no choice but to quit my job and move from oklahoma to Louisiana to help care for him. Our parents are dead, and we are both divorced. He is my only family, and I am his only family.
I told my human resource department the dire situation I was in. They gave me no further solutions to my problem. My department head said he could offer me a 30 day leave which in no way was long enough. With no other solutions I quit my job. I had done some research and felt fairly confident I would qualify for unemployment by showing good cause.
I was of course denied. And now my appeal has been denied. The lady administrator doing my appeal twisted everything around. She said I was given access to catastrophic 6 month leave and chose not to take it which was an outright lie. Furthermore my brother my only living blood relative is not considered immediate family by the state of oklahoma.
Do I have any hope at the review board? How can I make my case known?
Even if you weren't give a 6 month leave, you were offered a 30 day leave, and you quit anyway.
The thing you are most confused about is that you HAVE to be able and available. Your situation and what you did makes it seem like even if you didn't quit the job, you're still not eligible because you'll be too busy caring for your relative.
The theory behind the leave is that you take the leave, receive no pay, no UI benefits (not able and available), and then you return to your job. All the following translates into you not getting UI. To me it seems like you want be out of work, care for you brother, and collect benefits, and there is a conflict there because the searching for work and being able and available to accept work elements are missing from your circumstances.
As the quitter, the burden is on you so take guidance from your current denial, and prove things that were incorrectly used against you, and know that you have to also prove that while caring for your brother that you can look for work and accept work even with your caregiver duties.
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