I am currently in Alabama and was terminated from my job. I applied for unemployment benefits and they denied me saying I was discharged for theft. However, I was accused of theft but proved via surveillance video, credit card receipt, and date and time stamp via computer logs through the registers that I in fact did pay for the items they so accused me of stealing. They terminated my position anyways. There has been a string of terminations of managers within our district for the prior months for a reduction in hours needed to be paid as well as each store was given less man hours to schedule for work per shift. It is my assumption that they are firing individuals for any reason to not pay them their unemployment benefits regardless of their merit or truthfulness. What are my options. I have just sent an appeal to the unemployment board and probably will not hear back from them for at least a few weeks maybe even months.