The Unemployment Appeals Clinic is accepting both in-person and remote (phone) appointments for the summer. Intakes will be held every other Monday evening during the summer months. In person appointments are held on Monday nights from 7-9PM at the Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park St., Madison. To schedule an appointment call 211. The Unemployment Appeals Clinic is a small non-profit organization staffed by volunteer law students and attorneys.  You can think of our Monday night clinics like office hours. You can sign up to speak to a law student about your claim and get infor ..read more

  The Unemployment Appeals Clinic is on hiatus and will not be offering services while UW Law School is in its finals period. We will begin to start taking appointments again this summer and plan to host clinics every other Monday night starting on June 5.  ..read more

The Unemployment Appeals Clinic is accepting both in-person and remote (phone) appointments. Masks are required for all in-person appointments. In person appointments are held on Monday nights from 7-9PM at the Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park St., Madison. To schedule an appointment call 211. First, what is the clinic and are we a group that could help you? The Unemployment Appeals Clinic is a small non-profit staffed by volunteer law students and local supervising attorneys. We have one student manager who helps organize the clinic evenings, with all of our appointments scheduled through U ..read more

Due to the difficulty being caused by the omicron COVID-19 variant, we will continue to operate remotely (over the phone) this Spring 2022. First, what is the clinic and are we a group that could help you? The Unemployment Appeals Clinic is a small non-profit staffed by volunteer law students and local supervising attorneys. We have one student manager who helps organize the clinic evenings, with all of our appointments scheduled through United Way (contactable by calling 211).  We help specifically with unemployment appeals, not issues pertaining to applications or delayed determinations ..read more

The Unemployment Appeals Clinic is on Winter Break. We are currently not scheduling any Monday night intake appointments. Claimants already represented by students will continue to be represented by students, but we are not taking on any more claimants for representation at this time.  In mid to late January 2020 we will again hold our Monday night intake appointments. Look to this blog for any updates on our schedule (which is TBD).  See our previous post, here, to hear more about our clinic, how we have been operating for the past year and a half, and resources for unemployment hel ..read more

Although things are opening up in Wisconsin, we have found that we are able to service more claimants if we operate remotely. We will continue to operate remotely (over the phone) this Fall 2021. First, what is the clinic and are we a group that could help you? The Unemployment Appeals Clinic is a small non-profit staffed by volunteer law students and local supervising attorneys. We have one student manager who helps organize the clinic evenings, with all of our appointments scheduled through United Way (contactable by calling 211).  We help specifically with unemployment appeals, not iss ..read more

The Clinic is remaining remote (over the phone) until further notice The Unemployment Appeals Clinic is performing all claimant intake interviews over the phone until further notice. All of our appointments scheduled through United Way (contactable by calling 211). We help specifically with unemployment appeals, not issues pertaining to applications or delayed determinations. Claimant intake interviews temporarily moving to Tuesday nights during Spring 2021 Due to a scheduling conflict on our normal Monday night time slot, the clinic will operate on Tuesday night from January 2021 un ..read more

From Wisconsin Unemployment blog: As noted here and here (and too many others to list), filing for unemployment benefits in Wisconsin is dangerous. Any mistake you make on a claim can lead to a concealment/fraud charge by the Department of Workforce Development against you. So, if you must file for unemployment benefits, here are some key things to do when filing. Read the Worker's Guide Download and read A Worker's Guide to Unemployment Law. Most of the information presented here is from that guide. Be self-reliant Do not rely on the Department's on-line system to explain or inform you abou ..read more

A Workers’ Guide to Unemployment Insurance has just been updated. Significantly revised or new sections include: notes about on-line claim-filing and timely appeals examples of what actions can count as valid job searches exclusions from receiving unemployment benefits when also receiving SSDI benefits the new voluntary drug test reporting misconduct disqualifications for negligent conduct that causes substantial damage or for absenteeism as determined by whatever the employer sets descriptions about how the three exceptions to substantial fault are applied in the fraud and concealment sectio ..read more

Beginning at the 21st minute, the Nov. 18th show of Labor Radio on WORT featured supervising attorney Kevin Magee and law student Jen Bizzotto on the changes concealment have wrought on unemployment claims. Their comments were part of the Department of Workforce Development's Nov. 17th public hearing on unemployment issues in Wisconsin. If you don't know about the danger concealment poses to claimants, check out this post ..read more