Telephone hearings

Telephone hearings provide a convenient means for you to participate in a hearing without the expense or time required to travel to a central hearing site.

The Board of Review schedules telephone hearings by taking into consideration many details such as the number of witnesses and documents, the anticipated length of the hearing, the distance of the hearing location from those attending, and the safety of the participants.

In a telephone hearing, your testimony and that of your witnesses, is taken under oath over the phone. The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) conducts the hearing in the same manner as an in-person hearing, using the same question-and-answer format. You will have the opportunity to present your case and question the other parties involved. If your hearing is to take place by telephone, it will be clearly marked as a telephone hearing on your Notice of Appeals Hearing.

You must call the Board of Review as soon as you receive your hearing notice and any time up to 15 minutes prior to the hearing time to leave your phone number. Please do not wait until the exact hearing time to call the Board of Review. We must have sufficient time to inform the judge of your number before the hearing. Once the judge has your number the judge will then call you at the time stated on the notice of hearing. Be prepared for a delay in the event that the judge has difficulty contacting all parties or in case the previous hearing is running slightly longer than usual.