Summary
A new bill in Michigan aims to let around 350,000 people keep unemployment overpayments they received by mistake during the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill would prevent the state from collecting these overpayments unless it involved fraud. The Michigan Senate will soon vote on this bill.
Key Facts
- The bill is called Senate Bill 700.
- It would stop Michigan from collecting unemployment overpayments from February 2020 to September 2021.
- About 350,000 people received these payments and later learned they might have to pay them back.
- The bill was introduced by Democratic State Senator Darrin Camilleri.
- Overpayments caused by fraud are not covered by this bill; those involved would still have to repay the state.
- A previous lawsuit delayed the collection of these overpayments, but the process later restarted.
- The Michigan Committee on Labor has already approved the bill, sending it back to the Senate for a vote.
