The second stage in the hearing review lifecycle is hearing approval. The purpose of this stage is to verify that a hearing can be scheduled for the hearing review. During this stage, each appealed item linked to the hearing review is either approved or rejected, typically by a hearing review supervisor. If multiple items are under appeal in the hearing review appeal, each one of these appealed items must be approved. Only the approved items under appeal will be considered at the hearing scheduled for the hearing review. The status of the hearing review is based on the status of the item under appeal. If an appealed item on a hearing review is approved, the status of the hearing review is also approved. Note, however, if there are multiple items under appeal and one of those is set to rejected, the hearing review appeal status remains open.
Note that issues added to the hearing review appeal do not require approval.