Question juridique clé
Whether the original signed appeal sent to the wrong authority preserved the deadline.
Solution extraite
Yes. When a party timely addresses a filing to an incompetent social insurance authority, that authority must transmit it, and the deadline is deemed met.
Motifs extraits
Under Art. 30 LPGA and the related timeliness rules, the disability office had to forward the signed original. The appellant had clearly intended to perfect the earlier faxed appeal, and the lower court ignored the timely filed original, thereby establishing the facts manifestly incorrectly.