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Idaho — unemployment insurance benefit appeals

Agency
Idaho Department of Labor (Idaho Code § 72-1333)
First-level body
An appeals examiner appointed by the director (Idaho Code § 72-1368(6)); the unit is the department's appeals bureau (Idaho Code § 72-1318A)
Second-level body
The Idaho Industrial Commission, deciding under its own Rules of Appellate Practice and Procedure Under the Idaho Employment Security Law (Idaho Code § 72-1368(7))
Verified
2026-08-30

What is unusual here. Idaho keeps the whole appeal ladder in one statutory section. Idaho Code § 72-1368 runs from the department's first determination through the appeals examiner and the Industrial Commission to the Idaho Supreme Court — no trial court, no intermediate appellate court, a route no other state in this reference takes — in twelve subsections, and its last subsection switches off the general administrative-review route: the Idaho Administrative Procedure Act's contested-case and judicial-review provisions "are inapplicable to proceedings involving claimants under the provisions of this chapter." A reader who starts from the state's general administrative law is reading the wrong statute.

The second rung is the Idaho Industrial Commission — the body whose ordinary work is workers' compensation, and no other state covered by this reference sends an unemployment appeal to a workers' compensation body at all. It hears unemployment claims for review under § 72-1368(7) "in accordance with its own rules of procedure," and those rules are not in the administrative code. They are the Rules of Appellate Practice and Procedure Under the Idaho Employment Security Law, a twenty-page document the Commission adopts and publishes itself, currently effective as amended 9 July 2025. Meanwhile the Department of Labor's own appeals rules, IDAPA 09.01.01, contain no appeal deadline, no address for filing an appeal, and nothing at all about representation: the two chapters that a reader would look in first, on benefits and on tax, each contain a single sentence pointing somewhere else. Almost everything about how to start an appeal is in the statute, and almost everything about the second level is in a rulebook the administrative code does not carry.

The fourteen-day clock runs from mailing, and there is very little that softens it. Service is complete "on the date of mailing"; a late appeal "shall be dismissed on such grounds"; and the only relief in the statute is for a party who can prove by a preponderance that postal or departmental error kept the determination from arriving within fourteen days. Two ordinary expectations do not hold. A deadline that falls on a Saturday is not extended — Idaho Code § 73-108 makes every Sunday a holiday and does not make Saturday one, and § 73-109 excludes only a last day that is a holiday. And an appeal sent electronically over a weekend is deemed filed later, not earlier: both the statute and the Commission's rule provide that a faxed or emailed appeal received on a weekend or holiday is deemed filed on the next business day.

Representation splits by which side you are on, and the split is the Commission's reading of a statute that does not say it. Idaho Code § 72-1375(2) gives "any individual claiming benefits" the right to be represented "by counsel or other duly authorized agent" and is silent about employers. The Commission reads that silence as a denial: a claimant may use a non-attorney agent, an employer entity other than a natural person must have an Idaho attorney for anything beyond filing the initial appeal, and appeals from third-party employer representatives who are neither employees nor Idaho attorneys "will not be considered" — the unemployment cost-control firms that Kansas, for one, names in its own rule as an allowed employer representative. Nothing anywhere caps what a claimant's own representative may charge. The sentence that in many states follows this one — capping a representative at a percentage, or at an amount the agency approves — is not in Idaho's version at all; a handful of other states covered here are silent in the same way, so the absence is not singular, but it is real and it was looked for in the statute and in all three of the department's rule chapters. Nothing shifts fees to the fund or to the other side either. What the statute does instead is forbid the agency and the courts to charge the claimant anything, on pain of a misdemeanor, and the Appellate Rules carry that through: the filing fee for an appeal to the Supreme Court is $94.00, except that for "appeals by individual claimants under the employment security law" it is none.

Two agency pages describe the same appeal and disagree with each other, and each is right where the other is wrong. The Department of Labor's appeals page gives the correct current street address for the Commission and the wrong fax number — 208-332-7588, where the Commission's own rule, letterhead and FAQ all say 208-332-7558. The Commission's FAQ has the fax number right, but gives a street address that the Commission's own current rule does not use and says a faxed appeal must arrive by 5:00 p.m., where the rule adopted in July 2025 and the Commission's own main appeals page both allow until midnight. That page is stamped as last updated in 2017. On a deadline the Commission describes as one it has "no discretion to extend," seven hours and a wrong fax number are not small differences, and this page sets the two accounts side by side rather than choosing between them.

A. Bodies

A1. Agency. The Idaho Department of Labor administers Idaho's unemployment insurance program. Administration is vested in the director by statute:

"The director shall administer the employment security law, chapter 13, title 72, Idaho Code..."

— Idaho Code § 72-1333(1)

The director also holds general rulemaking authority:

"The director shall have the authority pursuant to chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code, to adopt, amend, or rescind rules as deemed necessary for the proper performance of all duties imposed by law."

— Idaho Code § 72-1333(2)

The Department's own procedural rules, IDAPA 09.01.01, state their legal authority and scope in the rule text itself:

"These rules are promulgated under Sections 45-616 and 72-1333(2), Idaho Code."

— IDAPA 09.01.01.000

"These rules govern all procedures for rulemaking, petitions for declaratory rulings, and determinations and appeals pursuant to the Employment Security Law, Title 72, Chapter 13, Idaho Code, and the Claims for Wages Act, Title 45, Chapter 6, Idaho Code, and for other programs administered by the Department unless otherwise specified by law."

— IDAPA 09.01.01.001

A2. First-level body. The statute names the office an "appeals examiner," appointed by the director:

"To hear and decide appeals from determinations, revised determinations, redeterminations, and special redeterminations, the director shall appoint appeals examiners."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(6)

IDAPA 09.01.01 defines the term:

"Appeals Examiner. A Department hearing officer designated to hear administrative appeals pursuant to the Employment Security Law and the Claims for Wages Act."

— IDAPA 09.01.01.010.01

Idaho Code § 72-1318A, defining "Decision," names the organizational unit housing the appeals examiners:

"'Decision' means any written ruling made by the department's appeals bureau pursuant to section 72-1368(6), Idaho Code, or the commission pursuant to section 72-1368(7), Idaho Code."

— Idaho Code § 72-1318A

The Department's own rules and its public-facing materials call this unit the "Appeals Bureau" (capitalized), consistent with the lower-case "appeals bureau" named in § 72-1318A. IDAPA 09.01.01.046 refers to "the Chief of the Appeals Bureau," and IDAPA 09.01.01.060.01 refers to filing "with the Idaho Industrial Commission in accordance with rules adopted by the Commission," citing Section 72-1368(7); R.A.P.P. Rule 3(B) likewise refers to "the Idaho Department of Labor Appeals Bureau." So the statutory office is the "appeals examiner" (an individual hearing officer); the organizational unit the Department calls this function is the "Appeals Bureau."

A3. Second-level body. The appellate authority above the appeals examiner is the Idaho Industrial Commission — a body whose principal docket is workers' compensation, sitting here in an unemployment-insurance appellate capacity:

"The commission shall decide all claims for review filed by any interested party in accordance with its own rules of procedure not in conflict herewith."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(7)

Those "own rules of procedure" are the Rules of Appellate Practice and Procedure Under the Idaho Employment Security Law (R.A.P.P.). The R.A.P.P.'s own introduction states the authority it claims:

"By virtue of the authority vested in the Industrial Commission pursuant to Idaho Code §§ 72-508 and 72-1368(7), the Industrial Commission of the State of Idaho does hereby adopt the following rules of procedure governing judicial matters under its jurisdiction as provided by the Idaho Employment Security Law."

— R.A.P.P. INTRODUCTION

R.A.P.P. Rule 1 states scope:

"These rules may be known and cited as the Rules of Appellate Practice and Procedure Under the Idaho Employment Security Law, or abbreviated R.A.P.P. and they shall apply in all disputed appeals coming under the Commission's jurisdiction. Only an interested party to a decision of an Appeals Examiner of the Idaho Department of Labor may file an appeal to the Commission, and the Commission shall make such order or ruling as allowed by Idaho Code § 72-1368(7)."

— R.A.P.P. Rule 1

The R.A.P.P. also explains who actually decides a given case at the Commission level. A matter may be assigned to a single Commissioner or to a Referee:

"Any matter upon which a claim for review has been filed with the Commission may be assigned by the Commission to a single Commissioner or to a Referee."

— R.A.P.P. Rule 8(A)

When it is, that hearing officer's recommendation becomes the Commission's decision only once the full Commission approves it:

"If the matter is assigned to a single Commissioner or Referee, the hearing officer shall make recommended Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, and the proceedings shall then be submitted to the Commission for its review. Every finding, order, or decision of a single Commissioner or Referee, when approved and confirmed by the Commission and filed in its office, shall be deemed to be the final order or decision of the Commission."

— R.A.P.P. Rule 8(E)

B. First-level appeal

B1. Deadline. The ordinary appeal window at every stage of the first-level process is fourteen days, but the event that starts the clock differs by the type of departmental action being appealed, and the ordinary clock runs from mailing, not from the party's receipt.

For a determination or revised determination:

"The determination or revised determination shall become final unless, within fourteen (14) days after notice, as provided in subsection (5) of this section, an appeal is filed by an interested party with the department."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(3)(c)

For a redetermination:

"The redetermination shall become final unless, within fourteen (14) days after notice as provided in subsection (5) of this section, an appeal is filed by an interested party with the department in accordance with the department's rules."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(4)(a)

For an overpayment determination issued under subsection (3)(b):

"The determination shall contain provisions advising of the right to appeal the decision to the department within fourteen (14) days of the date of service."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(3)(b)

Each of these cross-references "notice ... as provided in subsection (5)," and subsection (5) fixes what counts as service and when it is complete:

"Service by mail shall be deemed complete on the date of mailing. Service by electronic transmission shall be deemed complete on the date notice is electronically transmitted."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(5)

So the ordinary fourteen-day clock runs from the date the department mails (or electronically transmits) the determination, revised determination, redetermination, or overpayment determination — not from the date the party opens or receives it.

A separate, narrower provision supplies the event that starts the clock in the exceptional case where the determination did not reach the party promptly:

"If a party establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that, because of delay or error by the United States postal service or because of error on the part of the department, a determination was not delivered to the party's last known address, or transmitted electronically in a manner approved by the department, within fourteen (14) days of the date of mailing or service indicated on the determination, the period for filing a timely appeal extends to fourteen (14) days from the date of actual notice."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(3)(d)

That is: the ordinary clock runs from the date of mailing/service; the exception clock, available only on proof of postal or departmental delivery error, runs from the date of actual notice.

B2. Weekend/holiday rule. No provision of IDAPA 09.01.01 or of chapter 13 uses the phrase "weekend rule," and there is no generic rule sweeping Saturdays out of a deadline calculation. The applicable rules come from three different sources, and they do not treat Saturday and Sunday alike.

Idaho Code § 73-108 enumerates what counts as a "holiday" for purposes of computing time. Sunday is on the list without qualification:

"Holidays, within the meaning of these compiled laws, are: Every Sunday..."

— Idaho Code § 73-108

Saturday, by contrast, is not itself listed as a holiday. It appears only as the day from which an already-enumerated holiday is moved, in the statute's last paragraph:

"Any legal holiday that falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be a holiday and any legal holiday enumerated herein other than Sunday that falls on Sunday, the following Monday shall be a holiday."

— Idaho Code § 73-108

In other words: an ordinary Saturday that is not itself a relocated legal holiday is not a "holiday" under § 73-108's list at all.

The general computation rule then applies that list to a deadline:

"The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day, and including the last unless the last is a holiday and then it is also excluded."

— Idaho Code § 73-109

Because § 73-109 only excludes a last day that "is a holiday," and because Saturday is not on the § 73-108 list (except when a named holiday has been moved onto it), a deadline that falls due on a plain Saturday is not extended by § 73-109. A deadline that falls due on a Sunday is excluded, because "Every Sunday" is enumerated as a holiday outright.

A related provision addresses performance, not filing deadlines as such:

"Whenever any act of a secular nature, other than a work of necessity or mercy, is appointed by law or contract to be performed upon a particular day, which day falls upon a holiday, such act may be performed upon the next business day, with the same effect as if it had been performed upon the day appointed."

— Idaho Code § 73-110

Section 72-1368(3)(c) then supplies its own, appeal-specific filing-date rules, which operate independently of §§ 73-108 through 73-110 for the three permitted filing channels. For personal delivery:

"If an appeal is delivered personally, the personal delivery date will be noted on the appeal and deemed the date of filing."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(3)(c)

For fax or electronic transmission, weekends and holidays are treated alike and both push the deemed-filed date forward:

"A faxed or electronically transmitted appeal shall be deemed filed on the date received by the department, mountain time, or, if received on a weekend or holiday, the next business day."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(3)(c)

For mail:

"If mailed, the appeal shall be deemed filed on the date of mailing as determined by the postmark on the envelope containing the appeal."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(3)(c)

B3. How to file, required form. Section 72-1368(3)(c) states what the appeal notice itself must say:

"The appeal notice must be in writing, signed by an interested party, the appellant or representative, and contain words that, by fair interpretation, request the appeal process for a specific determination or other decision of the department."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(3)(c)

The same subsection sets out the three filing methods and the deemed-filed date for each, quoted in full in B2 above: personal delivery (deemed filed on the noted delivery date), fax or electronic transmission (deemed filed on the date received, mountain time, or the next business day if received on a weekend or holiday), and mail (deemed filed on the date of the postmark).

The statute does not say where the appeal goes, and neither does the rule. As a matter of practice, the Department's appeals page names the Appeals Bureau as the unit that handles unemployment appeals and gives a phone number (208-332-3572, toll-free 800-621-4938), a fax number (208-334-6440), an e-mail address ([email protected]) and a mailing address at 317 West Main Street, Boise, Idaho 83735-0720 — but it gives them in the passage about a request to reopen a hearing after a decision, not about the first appeal from a determination. No source read for this page states a filing address or channel for the first-level appeal itself. The determination a claimant receives presumably carries one; the published law and the published rules do not.

B4. Late appeals. Section 72-1368(3)(c) states a mandatory dismissal rule for untimely filings:

"Where it appears any appeal to the appeals examiner, claim, or any other request or application was not filed within the time period prescribed for filing, it shall be dismissed on such grounds."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(3)(c)

No provision of IDAPA 09.01.01 or chapter 13 creates a good-cause exception that revives or excuses a late-filed appeal. The closest rule, IDAPA 09.01.01.045.02, addresses two different things — continuing a hearing already scheduled, and dismissing an appeal already on file — not extending the filing deadline itself:

"Continuance. The appeals examiner may postpone or continue a hearing for good cause on the examiner's own motion or that of any party, before a hearing is concluded. The appeals examiner may dismiss an appeal for good cause, such as abandonment of the appeal."

— IDAPA 09.01.01.045.02

That is, .045.02 gives the appeals examiner discretion to reschedule a hearing that is already underway, and to dismiss a pending appeal (for example, for abandonment); it does not give the examiner discretion to accept an appeal notice filed after the fourteen-day period in § 72-1368(3)(c) has run.

A separate and narrower mechanism exists after a decision has already been issued: a rehearing application. IDAPA 09.01.01.045.03 sets a ten-day filing window:

"Rehearing. An application for rehearing will be in writing and filed in person or postmarked within ten (10) days after the appeals examiner's decision is served."

— IDAPA 09.01.01.045.03

Idaho Code § 72-1368(6) contains the corresponding statutory rehearing provision, likewise on a ten-day clock:

"The appeals examiner may, either upon application for rehearing by an interested party or on his own motion, rehear, affirm, modify, set aside or reverse any prior decision on the basis of the evidence previously submitted or on the basis of additional evidence; provided, that such application or motion be made within ten (10) days after the date of service of the decision."

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(6)

The Department's public appeals page describes the same ten-day window in practice terms, as a written request to reopen a hearing:

"If you missed your hearing or have new evidence, you may file a written request to reopen the hearing. You must file this request within 10 days of the mailing date on the decision."

— Idaho Department of Labor, "Appeals decision" (agency page — practice, not law)

This rehearing/reopening mechanism is distinct from the good-cause dismissal power in .045.02: it does not excuse a late notice of appeal, and it operates on its own ten-day clock measured from service (or mailing) of the appeals examiner's decision, not from the underlying determination.

C. Hearing

C1. Format. The format of an appeals-examiner hearing is set by rule, not merely by agency practice. IDAPA 09.01.01.045.01 states:

Hearings will be held by telephone unless, at the sole discretion of the appeals examiner, a personal hearing should be set. In deciding the manner in which to conduct the hearing, the appeals examiner will consider factors, including but not limited to the desires of the parties, possible delay and expense, the burden of proof, the complexity of the issues, and the number and location of witnesses.

— IDAPA 09.01.01.045.01 (3-23-22)

Telephone is therefore the default format, and a personal (in-person) hearing is available only at the appeals examiner's sole discretion, guided by the listed factors.

The opening paragraph of IDAPA 09.01.01.045, which precedes the numbered subsections, fixes the notice period for any hearing:

Written notice of the time and place of the hearing will be mailed or electronically transmitted to each interested party not less than seven (7) days prior to the hearing date.

— IDAPA 09.01.01.045 (3-23-22)

The labor.idaho.gov appeals page corroborates this as a matter of practice: its FAQ list includes the question "What if I didn't receive the Notice of Telephone Hearing or Decision?" — using "Notice of Telephone Hearing" as the name of the document the Department sends. This is agency practice, not an independent source of the notice period.

C2. Who presides. The presiding officer is the appeals examiner. Idaho Code § 72-1368(6) provides:

To hear and decide appeals from determinations, revised determinations, redeterminations, and special redeterminations, the director shall appoint appeals examiners.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(6)

IDAPA 09.01.01.010.01 defines the office:

A Department hearing officer designated to hear administrative appeals pursuant to the Employment Security Law and the Claims for Wages Act.

— IDAPA 09.01.01.010.01 (3-23-22)

IDAPA 09.01.01.045.10 describes the examiner's role at hearing:

The appeals examiner will function as a fact finder and not solely as a judge. The appeals examiner will have the responsibility of developing all the evidence that is reasonably available.

— IDAPA 09.01.01.045.10 (7-1-25)

This subsection carries an effective-date stamp of (7-1-25), which differs from the (3-23-22) stamp on most of the rest of section 045, including the definitions in .010 and the telephone-hearing and notice language quoted in C1 above.

C3. Recorded? Evidentiary or on the record. Idaho Code § 72-1368(6) requires a recorded, complete record:

A complete record shall be kept of all proceedings in connection with an appealed claim. All testimony at any hearing shall be recorded.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(6)

IDAPA 09.01.01.045.09 characterizes the hearing itself:

The proceeding before an appeals examiner will be a hearing "de novo" or original hearing and not solely a review proceeding.

— IDAPA 09.01.01.045.09 (3-23-22)

The evidence standard applied at hearing is set out in IDAPA 09.01.01.045.12:

The appeals examiner may exclude evidence that is irrelevant, unduly repetitious, or excludable on constitutional or statutory grounds, or on the basis of any evidentiary privilege provided by statute or recognized in the courts of this state. All other evidence may be admitted if it is of a type commonly relied upon by prudent persons in the conduct of their affairs.

— IDAPA 09.01.01.045.12 (7-1-25)

Several related subsections of IDAPA 09.01.01.045 fill out the hearing record:

As with C2, subsections .04 and .05 carry the (3-23-22) stamp, while .13, .14, and .15 carry the (7-1-25) stamp.

C4. Subpoenas available to a claimant. Idaho Code § 72-1368(6) makes subpoenas available to any interested party, including a claimant, on request:

If any interested party to a hearing formally requests the appeals examiner to issue a subpoena for a witness whose evidence is deemed necessary, the appeals examiner shall promptly issue the subpoena, unless such request is determined to be unreasonable.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(6)

IDAPA 09.01.01.045.06 addresses a witness's failure to respond to a subpoena issued by mail:

If a person fails to respond to a subpoena issued by mail, the appeals examiner will proceed with the scheduled hearing and determine, after hearing available testimony, whether the subpoena is still necessary and reasonable. If so, the hearing will be continued and a second subpoena will be issued and personally served.

— IDAPA 09.01.01.045.06 (3-23-22)

IDAPA 09.01.01.045.07 sets witness fees and mileage, and excludes interested parties from them:

Individuals who attend hearings before the appeals examiner as subpoenaed witnesses, not parties, are entitled to receive a fee of seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) for each day or portion thereof for attendance. In no case will a witness be paid more than seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) for any one (1) day. Subpoenaed witnesses are entitled to mileage expense at the current allowable mileage reimbursement rate as determined by the Idaho State Board of Examiners. ... Under no circumstances will interested parties to a hearing be granted witness fees or mileage expenses. Mileage fees are not allowed for vicinity travel.

— IDAPA 09.01.01.045.07 (3-23-22)

D. Representation

D1. Attorney / non-attorney allowed. Idaho Code § 72-1375(2) is the statutory source of the right to representation:

Any individual claiming benefits in any proceeding before the department, the commission, or a court may be represented by counsel or other duly authorized agent.

— Idaho Code § 72-1375(2)

IDAPA 09.01.01, the Department's own rules of administrative procedure, says nothing further about who may represent a party; representation is not addressed in that chapter beyond what Idaho Code § 72-1375(2) provides.

At the Industrial Commission level, the Rules of Appellate Practice and Procedure (R.A.P.P.) are considerably more specific. Rule 4(A) covers appearance generally:

In all matters, any individual party may appear in person or by an attorney authorized to practice in Idaho.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 4(A)

Rule 4(B) governs a claimant's use of a non-attorney representative:

A claimant may be represented or assisted by a duly authorized agent other than an attorney. If a claimant uses an authorized agent, the claimant or agent must file with the Commission documentation signed by the claimant that establishes the agency relationship.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 4(B)

Rule 4(C) imposes a different rule on employer entities:

An employer entity, other than a natural person, must be represented by an attorney to request that the Commission consider additional evidence, convene a new hearing, issue subpoenas, set a briefing schedule, or any other action in furtherance of an appeal. This includes employers who are established as corporations, partnerships, or other business entities.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 4(C)

Rule 4(D) requires a Notice of Appearance from any attorney appearing before the Commission:

All attorneys representing parties before the Commission shall be licensed to practice and actively practicing law in the state of Idaho or associated with an Idaho attorney so licensed. Attorneys representing parties before the Commission shall file with the Commission a Notice of Appearance, regardless of whether counsel appeared in the proceedings before the Idaho Department of Labor. If an attorney representing an interested party files the appeal with the Commission on behalf of that party, the appeal will serve as the Notice of Appearance in satisfaction of this provision.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 4(D)

Rule 3(A) restricts who may file on an employer's behalf:

Any party may file a notice of appeal on its own behalf. In the case of corporations, a corporate officer, or any employee ordinarily designated to handle unemployment appeals, may file a notice of appeal on behalf of the corporation. Appeals submitted by employer representatives not employees of the interested employer and who are not attorneys licensed to practice law in Idaho will not be considered.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 3(A)

The asymmetry between claimant and employer representation is grounded in statute, per the Rule 4 comment:

Subsection (B) allows claimants to choose "other duly authorized agent[s]" but does not extend this to employers. See Idaho Code § 72-1375(2).

— R.A.P.P. Rule 4, Comment

The Industrial Commission's unemployment-appeals FAQ addresses non-attorney claim-management firms, as a matter of practice:

I use an unemployment claim management firm (i.e. Talx UC Express) and they represented me at the Appeals Examiner's hearing. Can they represent me at the Commission? No. Only interested parties can file and participate in unemployment insurance appeals before the Commission. Professional employer representative firms are not interested parties and therefore cannot file appeals on behalf of their clients with the Commission as they can with the Idaho Department of Labor.

— Idaho Industrial Commission, "Unemployment Appeals FAQs" (agency page — practice, not law)

D2. Fee regulation. No cap on what a claimant's own representative may charge appears anywhere in the sources read, including Idaho Code chapter 13 and all three IDAPA chapters read for this page (09.01.01, 09.01.30 and 09.01.35). What Idaho Code § 72-1375(2) and (3) actually provide is narrower and points the other direction — a bar on the agency and the courts charging the claimant, not a ceiling on a representative's own fee:

No individual claiming benefits shall be charged fees or costs of any kind in any proceeding under this chapter by the commission, the director, any of its or his employees or representatives, or by any court or any officer thereof, except that a court may assess costs if the court determines that the proceedings have been instituted or continued without reasonable ground. ... Any person who violates any provision of this subsection shall, for each such offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor.

— Idaho Code § 72-1375(2)

Subsection (3) separately exempts benefits from being reached to satisfy an attorney-fee award:

Any assignment, pledge, or encumbrance of any right to benefits which are or may become due or payable under this chapter shall be void; and such rights to benefits shall be exempt from levy, execution, attachment, or an order for the payment of attorney's fees.

— Idaho Code § 72-1375(3)

The Industrial Commission's FAQ confirms, as a matter of practice, that no fee-shifting mechanism exists:

Who pays my attorney? You do. There is no provision in the Idaho Employment Security Law allowing for the recovery of attorney fees from either the unemployment insurance fund or an opposing party.

— Idaho Industrial Commission, "Unemployment Appeals FAQs" (agency page — practice, not law)

At the Supreme Court level, R.A.P.P. Rule 12(A) refers to a filing fee without stating its amount:

The Appeal and the appropriate fees must be filed with the Commission either by mail to P.O. Box 83720-0041, Boise, ID 83720 or by hand delivery to 11321 W. Chinden Blvd., Boise, ID 83714.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 12(A)

Idaho App. R. 23(a)(3) supplies the amount, and the same rule's item (13) shows that the reference in R.A.P.P. Rule 12(A) resolves to no fee at all for an individual claimant's appeal:

Appeals from the Industrial Commission, with the exception of appeals by individual claimants under the employment security law ... $94.00

— Idaho App. R. 23(a)(3)

Appeals by individual claimants under the employment security law ... $ None

— Idaho App. R. 23(a)(13)

E. Benefits pending appeal

E1. Paid while a denied claimant appeals? Paid while an allowed claimant's employer appeals? Idaho Code § 72-1368(10) answers only the second question. Subsection (10)(a) provides:

Benefits shall be paid promptly in accordance with any decision allowing benefits, regardless of: (i) The pendency of a time period for filing an appeal or petitioning for commission review; or (ii) The pendency of an appeal or petition for review.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(10)(a)

Subsection (10)(b) continues:

Such payments shall not be withheld until a subsequent appeals examiner decision or commission decision modifies or reverses the previous decision, in which event benefits shall be paid or denied in accordance with such decision.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(10)(b)

The trigger for (10)(a) is "any decision allowing benefits." Where a determination or decision has allowed benefits, payment must proceed promptly and continues regardless of a pending appeal period or a pending appeal or petition for review, and is not withheld pending a later decision that might modify or reverse the allowance — that later decision only changes payment going forward, from the date it issues. Read this way, subsection (10) governs the situation where a claimant has been found entitled to benefits and an employer (or the department) is the one appealing: payment continues through that appeal. Subsection (10) does not say anything about a claimant who has been denied benefits and is appealing that denial — there is no "decision allowing benefits" in that scenario, so (10)(a)'s payment obligation has no occasion to apply, and no other provision in this section requires payment during the pendency of a denied claimant's own appeal.

E2. Overpayment obligation on reversal, and any waiver. Idaho Code § 72-1369(1) states the basic repayment obligation:

Any person who received benefits to which he was not entitled under the provisions of this chapter or under an unemployment insurance law of any state or of the federal government shall be liable to repay the benefits, and the benefits shall, for the purpose of this chapter, be considered to be overpayments.

— Idaho Code § 72-1369(1)

Subsection (2) sets a civil-penalty ladder tied to a finding of false statement, misrepresentation, or failure to report a material fact:

The director shall assess the following monetary penalties for each determination in which the claimant is found to have made a false statement, misrepresentation, or failed to report a material fact to the department: (a) Twenty-five percent (25%) of any resulting overpayment for the first determination; (b) Fifty percent (50%) of any resulting overpayment for the second determination; and (c) One hundred percent (100%) of any resulting overpayment for the third and any subsequent determination.

— Idaho Code § 72-1369(2)

Subsection (4)(a) allows recoupment from future benefits for non-fraud overpayments and sets a five-year uncollectible mark:

Overpayments, other than those resulting from a false statement, misrepresentation, or failure to report a material fact by the claimant, that have not been repaid or collected may, at the discretion of the director, be deducted from any future benefits payable to the claimant under the provisions of this chapter. Such overpayments not recovered within five (5) years from the date of the final determination establishing liability to repay may be deemed uncollectible.

— Idaho Code § 72-1369(4)(a)

Subsection (4)(b) sets an eight-year mark for fraud-based overpayments:

Overpayments resulting from a false statement, misrepresentation, or failure to report a material fact by the claimant that have not been recovered within eight (8) years from the date of the final determination establishing liability to repay may be deemed uncollectible.

— Idaho Code § 72-1369(4)(b)

Subsection (5) makes waiver discretionary and excludes fraud overpayments from eligibility:

The director may waive the requirement to repay an overpayment, other than one resulting from a false statement, misrepresentation, or failure to report a material fact by the claimant, and interest thereon, if: (a) The benefit payments were made solely as a result of department error or inadvertence and made to a claimant who could not reasonably have been expected to recognize the error; or (b) Such payments were made solely as a result of an employer misreporting wages earned in a claimant's base period and made to a claimant who could not reasonably have been expected to recognize an error in the wages reported.

— Idaho Code § 72-1369(5)(a)-(b)

Subsection (7) gives the director separate, general compromise discretion:

The director shall have discretion to compromise any or all of an overpayment, civil penalty, interest, or disqualification assessed under subsections (1) and (2) of this section and section 72-1366(12), Idaho Code, when the director finds it is in the best interest of the department.

— Idaho Code § 72-1369(7)

An overpayment determination is itself appealable on the ordinary ladder. Idaho Code § 72-1368(3)(b) provides that where the department determines a claimant was not entitled to benefits received and issues a determination requiring repayment:

The determination shall contain provisions advising of the right to appeal the decision to the department within fourteen (14) days of the date of service.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(3)(b)

F. Above the first level

F1. Second level — body, deadline, on the record or de novo. The second-level body is the Idaho Industrial Commission. Idaho Code § 72-1368(6) provides that the appeals examiner's decision becomes final:

Unless an interested party shall within fourteen (14) days after service of the decision of the appeals examiner file with the commission a claim for review or unless an application or motion is made for a rehearing of such decision, the decision of the appeals examiner shall become final.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(6)

R.A.P.P. Rule 3(B) states the same fourteen-day deadline and the rehearing-motion deferral:

An appeal, as defined in Rule 2(A), must be filed within fourteen (14) days of the service by mail or otherwise of a final decision of the Appeals Examiner. An appeal not filed within such time will be dismissed as untimely. Service by mail is deemed complete upon the date of mailing to the party's last-known address. If a timely request or motion for rehearing is filed with the Idaho Department of Labor Appeals Bureau, the fourteen-day period does not begin to run until service by mail or otherwise of a final order issued by the Bureau.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 3(B)

R.A.P.P. Rule 2(A) defines what counts as a valid appeal and where it must not be sent:

A writing, signed by an interested party or legal representative, containing words that, by fair interpretation, present a claim for review. To be valid, an appeal must be filed by delivering it to the Idaho Industrial Commission by any of the means described in subpart (D) "Filing". Appeals delivered to any other Industrial Commission office, appeals delivered or sent to any Department of Labor office, and appeals that are not signed by an interested party or that party's attorney are not considered valid appeals.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 2(A)

R.A.P.P. Rule 2(D) lists the filing methods and deemed-filed dates, including the weekend/holiday rule for electronic filings:

Personally delivering an appeal to the Industrial Commission at 11321 W. Chinden Blvd., Boise, Idaho 83714; mailing it to the Industrial Commission, P.O. Box 83720, Boise, Idaho, 83720-0041; transmitting by facsimile to 208-332-7558; by email to [email protected]; or submitting via Commission portal. Appeals delivered by any means to any other Industrial Commission office will not be considered filed. Appeals sent to the Idaho Department of Labor will not be considered filed.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 2(D)

Appeals transmitted to the Commission by email or facsimile are deemed to be filed when received by the Commission and must be received by the Commission no later than midnight, Mountain Time, on the last day to appeal. An appeal transmitted by email or facsimile and received by the Commission on a weekend or holiday, shall be deemed filed on the next business day.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 2(D)(2)

That last rule is a deeming-later rule, not a grace period: a weekend or holiday receipt does not extend the deadline itself, it fixes the filed date as the next business day, which only helps if that next business day is still within the appeal window (as when the deadline itself falls on the weekend).

On the standard of review, Idaho Code § 72-1368(7) makes the record below the record on review unless justice requires more:

The record before the commission shall consist of the record of proceedings before the appeals examiner, unless it appears to the commission that the interests of justice require that the interested parties be permitted to present additional evidence.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(7)

R.A.P.P. Rule 7(A) gives a party seven days from mailing of the record to request a Commission hearing:

Any interested party shall have seven (7) days from the date of mailing of the record to file with the Commission a written request for a hearing before the Commission. A request may be filed in the same manner as an appeal, as described in Rule 2(D).

— R.A.P.P. Rule 7(A)

Rule 7(C) describes the Commission's discretion to grant or deny that request, and Rule 7(F) what happens if none is requested or granted:

Upon receipt of a timely request or receipt of the record of proceedings before the Appeals Examiner and expiration of the time allowed for interested parties to request a hearing, the Commission shall review the matter to determine whether the interests of justice require the presentation of additional evidence.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 7(C)

If no hearing is requested, or a request for hearing is denied, the Commission shall decide the claim for review upon the record of proceeding before the Appeals Examiner. The Commission may request briefs based on the evidentiary record in lieu of granting a hearing.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 7(F)

Rule 3(E) bars civil-style discovery, and Rule 3(F) requires the Commission to serve a copy of the hearing recording:

No discovery procedures as contemplated by the Idaho Rules of Civil Procedure are permitted.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 3(E)

Pursuant to Idaho Code § 72-1368(6), the Commission will prepare and serve on all interested parties a copy of the audio recording of the Appeals Examiner's hearing in each case appealed to the Commission. The form of the copy, either audio recording or paper transcript, will be at the discretion of the Commission.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 3(F)

As a matter of practice, the Industrial Commission's own web page states that the referee's review does not defer to the appeals examiner's findings:

Neither the Commissioners nor the referee is bound by the findings and the conclusions of the Appeals Examiner. The decision issued by the Commission will be a new decision in the case and can only be appealed to the Idaho Supreme Court.

— Idaho Industrial Commission, "Unemployment Appeals" (agency page — practice, not law)

R.A.P.P. Rule 10 governs remands to the department:

The Commission may remand cases to the Idaho Department of Labor in the following situations: 1. Where the decision below does not set forth specific findings of fact; 2. Where a party did not appear for the Department of Labor hearing and has established good cause for the absence; 3. Where the Commission grants a new hearing request pursuant to RULE 7(C); or 4. Where other good cause to remand exists.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 10(A)

Rule 10(B) sets the consequence for a remand — the Commission loses jurisdiction, and a fresh appeal must be filed from the decision on remand:

When a case is remanded the Commission no longer has jurisdiction over the pending appeal. Therefore, a new request for Commission review, if desired, must be filed by an aggrieved party within fourteen (14) days after the date of service of the Appeals Bureau's decision on remand.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 10(B)

The three published accounts of how to file this appeal do not agree, and the differences are on the parts that decide whether an appeal is timely. The Commission's rule, quoted above, gives the fax number as 208-332-7558 and allows an emailed or faxed appeal until midnight Mountain Time on the last day. The Commission's main appeals page agrees on the substance and puts the cutoff at 11:59 p.m.:

If the appeal is faxed, the date the Commission receives the transmission is the filed date, provided that the Commission receives the transmission by 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time.

— Idaho Industrial Commission, "Unemployment Appeals" (agency page — practice, not law)

The Commission's FAQ page states a different cutoff, seven hours earlier, and treats a fax arriving after it the way the rule treats one arriving on a weekend:

Appeals transmitted by facsimile to the Commission and received by 5:00 p.m. on a business day shall be deemed filed on that day. An appeal transmitted by facsimile and received by the Commission on a weekend, holiday, or after 5:00 p.m. on a business day shall be deemed filed on the next business day.

— Idaho Industrial Commission, "Unemployment Appeals FAQs" (agency page — practice, not law)

That page also gives the Commission's street address as 700 S. Clearwater Lane, where R.A.P.P. Rule 2(D) — adopted in July 2025 — gives 11321 W. Chinden Blvd. The page carries its own last-updated stamp of 14 August 2017, which is the likeliest explanation for both.

The Department of Labor's page is current on the address and wrong on the fax number. It directs an appellant to the Commission at "11321 W. Chinden Blvd., Bldg. 2," which matches the rule, and then gives the fax as 208-332-7588 — a digit different from the 208-332-7558 that appears in R.A.P.P. Rule 2(D), on the Commission's letterhead in the same document, and on the Commission's FAQ. Three sources say 7558 and one says 7588; the outlier is the page a claimant reading a Department of Labor decision is most likely to reach.

None of this changes the law, which is R.A.P.P. Rule 2(D) and Idaho Code § 72-1368(6). It matters because the Commission's own page describes the consequence of getting it wrong:

The Commission has no discretion to extend the appeal period and appeals which are late by even one day, will be dismissed.

— Idaho Industrial Commission, "Unemployment Appeals" (agency page — practice, not law)

F2. Is a rehearing motion required to exhaust remedies? Idaho Code § 72-1368(7) makes reconsideration a matter of party choice, not a mandatory step:

provided, within twenty (20) days from the date of filing the decision, any party may move for reconsideration of the decision or the commission may rehear or reconsider its decision on its own initiative. The decision shall be final upon denial of a motion for rehearing or reconsideration or the filing of the decision on reconsideration.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(7)

R.A.P.P. Rule 8(F) sets the mechanics:

Motions for reconsideration shall be in writing and specifically identify the legal justification upon which the motion is based. The request for reconsideration must be made within twenty (20) days from the date of filing of the Commission's decision and order, and served on all interested parties.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 8(F)

Its COMMENT describes the motion's purpose:

Subsection (F) contemplates that a request for reconsideration will ask that the Commission reexamine its decision in light of additional legal arguments, a change in law, a misinterpretation of law, or an argument or aspect of the case that was overlooked. A request for reconsideration that is based on a legal argument which could have been raised earlier in the proceeding will not ordinarily be granted. The intent is to provide a format for legal critique, but discourage reactionary motions when a party merely wants the Commission to "think it over again."

— R.A.P.P. Rule 8(F) COMMENT

The statute's "may move" and the Commission's own framing of the motion as an optional vehicle for a specific kind of legal critique both point the same direction: nothing in these sources makes a rehearing or reconsideration motion a mandatory prerequisite to a Supreme Court appeal. Consistent with that, Idaho App. R. 14(b) treats such a motion as something that, if filed and timely, changes when the appeal clock runs, rather than as a required gate:

The time for an appeal from such decision, order or award of the industrial commission is terminated by a timely motion for rehearing or reconsideration of the decision or order which, if granted, could affect the decision, order or award (except motions regarding costs or attorneys fees), in which case the appeal period commences to run upon the date of the filing stamp on the order or decision denying such motion or the decision on rehearing or reconsideration.

— Idaho App. R. 14(b)

F3. Judicial review — court, deadline, standard. Idaho Code § 72-1368(9) sends the appeal to the Supreme Court, not a district court:

An appeal may be made to the Supreme Court from decisions and orders of the commission within the times and in the manner prescribed by rule of the Supreme Court.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(9)

Idaho App. R. 11(d)(1) makes that appeal one of right:

From any final decision or order of the Industrial Commission or from any final decision or order upon rehearing or reconsideration by the administrative agency.

— Idaho App. R. 11(d)(1)

Idaho App. R. 14(b) sets the deadline and the filing method:

An appeal as a matter of right from an administrative agency may be made only by physically filing a notice of appeal with the Public Utilities Commission or the Industrial Commission within 42 days from the date evidenced by the filing stamp of the clerk or secretary of the administrative agency on any decision, order or award appealable as a matter of right.

— Idaho App. R. 14(b)

Idaho App. R. 22 states the court's own day-counting rule:

In computing the time period prescribed or allowed for the filing or service of any document in these rules, the day of the act or event after which the designated period of time begins to run is not to be included, but the last day of the period so computed is to be included unless it is a Saturday, Sunday or a non-judicial day, as defined in Section 1-1607, Idaho Code, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day which is neither a Saturday, Sunday or a non-judicial day as defined in Section 1-1607, Idaho Code.

— Idaho App. R. 22

R.A.P.P. Rule 12(A) restates the 42-day deadline and where the appeal and fee are filed:

Any interested party desiring to appeal a final decision to the Idaho Supreme Court must do so within forty-two (42) days from the date evidenced by the filing stamp on the final order, pursuant to Idaho Appellate Rule 14. If the Commission issued an order on reconsideration, the interested parties have forty-two (42) days from the date evidenced by the filing stamp on the final order. The Appeal and the appropriate fees must be filed with the Commission either by mail to P.O. Box 83720-0041, Boise, ID 83720 or by hand delivery to 11321 W. Chinden Blvd., Boise, ID 83714.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 12(A)

Idaho Code § 72-1368(11)(a) provides for finality of unappealed commission decisions:

Subject to appeal proceedings and judicial review by the Supreme Court as set forth in this section, any determination, redetermination or decision as to rights to benefits shall be conclusive for all purposes of this chapter and shall not be subject to collateral attack irrespective of notice.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(11)(a)

Idaho Code § 72-1368(12) removes the Idaho APA's contested-case and judicial-review provisions from claimant proceedings:

The provisions of the Idaho administrative procedure act, chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code, regarding contested cases and judicial review of contested cases are inapplicable to proceedings involving claimants under the provisions of this chapter.

— Idaho Code § 72-1368(12)

Read together, (9) and (12) mean the route to court runs directly from § 72-1368(9) into the Idaho Appellate Rules and R.A.P.P. Rule 12, not through the Idaho APA's separate judicial-review chapter. NOT FOUND IN PRIMARY SOURCE: no statute or rule read for this page states the standard of review the Supreme Court applies to a commission decision under this chapter. Neither § 72-1368, the Appellate Rules read here, nor the Commission's own rules supply one; in Idaho that standard comes from case law, which this page does not cover.

G. Employer side

An employer is an "interested party" for benefit-claim appeals. Idaho Code § 72-1323 defines the term to include, for a claim for benefits, the claimant's last regular employer, the employer whose account is chargeable for experience rating purposes, and the cost reimbursement employer who may be billed for any portion of benefits claimed. R.A.P.P. Rule 2(B) restates the same categories:

As defined by Idaho Code § 72-1323 includes, with respect to a claim for benefits, the claimant, the claimant's last regular employer, the covered employer whose account is chargeable for experience rating purposes, the cost reimbursement employer who may be billed for any portion of benefits claimed, and the Director of the Idaho Department of Labor or a duly authorized representative of any of them.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 2(B)

An employer interested party in a benefit-claim appeal is on the same ladder and the same fourteen-day clock described in Section F above.

At the Commission, employer representation is asymmetric as against claimant representation — see Section D for the claimant side. R.A.P.P. Rule 3(A) restricts who may file an appeal on an employer's behalf:

Any party may file a notice of appeal on its own behalf. In the case of corporations, a corporate officer, or any employee ordinarily designated to handle unemployment appeals, may file a notice of appeal on behalf of the corporation. Appeals submitted by employer representatives not employees of the interested employer and who are not attorneys licensed to practice law in Idaho will not be considered.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 3(A)

R.A.P.P. Rule 4(C) then requires counsel for further steps beyond the initial appeal:

An employer entity, other than a natural person, must be represented by an attorney to request that the Commission consider additional evidence, convene a new hearing, issue subpoenas, set a briefing schedule, or any other action in furtherance of an appeal. This includes employers who are established as corporations, partnerships, or other business entities.

— R.A.P.P. Rule 4(C)

Employer liability and tax determinations run on a partly different track. Idaho Code § 72-1361 lists the determinations it covers:

Upon appeal from a denial of a claim for refund or credit, determination of amounts due upon failure to report, determination of rate of contribution, determination of coverage, determination of chargeability, jeopardy determination, cost reimbursement determination, determination of mandatory transfer of experience rating, or determination of successor liability, the director may transfer the appeal directly to an appeals examiner pursuant to section 72-1368(6), Idaho Code, or he may issue a redetermination affirming, reversing or modifying the initial determination.

— Idaho Code § 72-1361

Its redetermination clock is also fourteen days:

A redetermination shall become final unless, within fourteen (14) days after notice as provided in section 72-1368(5), Idaho Code, an appeal is filed by an interested party with the department in accordance with the department's rules.

— Idaho Code § 72-1361

It then names which parts of § 72-1368 govern procedure:

Appeal procedures shall be governed by the provisions of section 72-1368(4), (6), (7), (8), (9) and (11), Idaho Code.

— Idaho Code § 72-1361

That sentence pulls in subsection (4) (director's transfer/redetermination authority), (6) (appeals-examiner hearing and decision), (7) (commission review, record, reconsideration), (8) (recusal), (9) (Supreme Court appeal), and (11) (preclusive/final effect). It leaves out (1) (claims filing generally), (2) (employer posting duty), (3) (the claimant determination and appeal-filing mechanics, including the deemed-filed and postmark rules described in Section F), (5) (notice/service, which § 72-1361 instead cross-references directly, on its own, for the redetermination deadline quoted above), (10) (benefits paid pending appeal, which has no analogue in an employer-liability dispute), and (12) (APA inapplicability, which § 72-1361 states independently in its own final sentence rather than by cross-reference).

Above all, § 72-1361 assigns the burden of proof to whichever party appeals:

The party appealing shall have the burden of proving each issue appealed by clear and convincing evidence.

— Idaho Code § 72-1361

Sources

Every citation on this page was read on 2026-08-30 at the URL given. Publisher crawl policies were read first, at robots.txt on each host, as this project's method requires.

Statutes — the Idaho Code, from the Idaho Legislature. legislature.idaho.gov serves one section per page with a bracketed History: chain running back to enactment, and states its own edition on the page: "Idaho Statutes are updated to the website July 1 following the legislative session." Its robots.txt is worth describing exactly, because a keyword search of it gives the wrong answer: the file contains the lines #User-agent: ClaudeBot and #Disallow: / — commented out, as are the identical blocks for Googlebot, Bingbot, Amazonbot and DuckAssistBot — while PerplexityBot, FacebookBot, Applebot, QuillBot, SemanticScholarBot and a dozen SEO crawlers are excluded for real, and GPTBot, ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot are given a one-second crawl delay. The operative group for this agent is User-agent: *, which allows the statutes.

Rules — IDAPA, from the Office of the Administrative Rules Coordinator, whose listing service is down. adminrules.idaho.gov has been carrying a banner reading "We're experiencing a temporary technical issue affecting document search and listings" since at least 27 August 2026, and every listing and index path returns it. The documents themselves are unaffected. Each chapter is a PDF at adminrules.idaho.gov/rules/current/<title>/<chapter>.pdf, which redirects to files.dfm.idaho.gov and serves the current text; the files used here were generated 9 June 2026. That is the publisher's own copy, and it carries something the mirrors do not: an effective date in parentheses at the end of every subsection, which is how this page can say that most of IDAPA 09.01.01.045 dates from 2022 and its last six subsections from 1 July 2025. Neither adminrules.idaho.gov nor files.dfm.idaho.gov serves a robots.txt; both return 404 for it, which is the absence of a policy rather than a policy.

The Commission's own rulebook, which the administrative code does not carry. Rules of Appellate Practice and Procedure Under the Idaho Employment Security Law, twenty pages, effective as amended 9 July 2025, superseding rules the Commission adopted on 29 March 2023. Read in full, including the official comments printed under each rule, which are quoted here as part of the instrument rather than as commentary on it. It is linked from the Commission's laws, rules and legislation page. iic.idaho.gov publishes a permissive robots.txt.

Court rules — the Idaho Appellate Rules, from the Idaho Supreme Court. isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/iar serves the whole set on one page with an adoption-and-amendment history under each rule. Rule 11 (appealable orders, including subsection (d) on the Industrial Commission), Rule 13 (stays), Rule 14 (time for filing appeals), Rule 22 (computation of time) and Rule 23 (filing fees, including the claimant carve-out) were read. isc.idaho.gov excludes only administrative and preview paths.

Practice — three agency pages, read against the rules on purpose. This project treats an agency's own pages as evidence of practice and also as a check on the rules; here the check produced the discrepancies set out in F1. www.labor.idaho.gov and iic.idaho.gov both publish permissive robots.txt files.

A note on the mirror, for a reader who goes looking. Cornell's Legal Information Institute mirrors IDAPA, and its page for Idaho Admin. Code r. 09.01.01.045 was compared against the publisher's file for this page. The text agrees — the 2025 subsections are all there — but the edition stamp does not. LII labels the whole rule "Effective March 23, 2022," which is the date of the chapter's last full rewrite and not the date of its most recent amendment, and LII does not carry the per-subsection dates the publisher's own file prints. A mirror whose date is present and wrong is a harder problem than one carrying no date at all, because the second sends a reader to the publisher and the first does not. The publisher's file is what this page cites.

Scope note

This page describes how a procedure works. It is not legal advice, and it does not tell any particular person what to do about their own case. Deadlines and rules change, and an error here would be invisible to you — check anything you intend to rely on against the cited source and against the Idaho Department of Labor and the Idaho Industrial Commission directly. The verified-on date at the top is the date the citations were last read.

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