Key legal question
Whether the appeal was filed in time despite being first sent to the wrong authority
Extracted holding
Yes. The filing was timely because submission to an incompetent body also preserves the deadline, and Easter suspension applied.
Extracted reasoning
Under ATSG rules, filing with an incompetent authority still preserves time limits; with the Easter suspension, the April 1, 2016 submission was within the 30-day appeal period.