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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStates are setting hard-hit Americans up for disaster by forcing them to pay back unemployment
Brandel Cook lost his job during the pandemic and had to go on unemployment. Now, the state of Missouri wants him to repay $4,500.
"They want me to repay $900 for the state benefits, that was $67 weekly [$75 pretax], and the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation of $3,600, the $300 a week," Cook told me in a recent interview.
Cook's tale of woe is one of many. For months now, people have complained of unfair demands for repayment on their unemployment benefits as the country has tried to put the COVID pandemic behind it.
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Many state unemployment systems use outdated technology and were overwhelmed by the sudden flood of unemployment claims made when the pandemic broke out. Now, months or a year later, these same flawed systems have gone back and flagged some of these payments as supposedly incorrect or that the application was accepted "in error."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-government-is-setting-hard-hit-americans-up-for-disaster-by-forcing-them-to-pay-back-unemployment-benefits/ar-AAODy5Q
marble falls
(56,358 posts)GPV
(72,377 posts)twin_ghost
(435 posts)They are not going to take your house. If they place a lien on your house then you can pay it off when you sell the house or condo.
BEEN THERE and DONE THAT!
2naSalit
(86,048 posts)About fraudulent UB recipients. I hope that's what this ends being about. If not, it's a bold step toward state initiated serfdom.