Colorado Tells Unemployed To Pay Back $128 Million In Jobless Benefits

Bonnie Kavoussi
The Huffington Post
June 6, 2012

In one state, the jobless now have to pay the government.

Colorado accidentally overpaid $128 million in unemployment benefits last year, and now the state is billing the jobless to get that money back, the Denver Post and Associated Press reported.

States across the country accidentally overpaid $5.1 billion in unemployment benefits, largely because of clerical mistakes rather than fraud, according to government officials quoted in the Denver Post. It is unclear whether other states will also bill the jobless.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 1:51 pm

Tags: domestic news, economics

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