Written By Lexx Thornton About 350,000 Michigan workers who filed for unemployment insurance benefits as far back as March 2020 must return up to $2.7 billion in benefits, Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency said on Sept. 8. Many of the affected claims were filed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency said, but it wasn’t able to request repayments because of a court order in a class-action lawsuit against the agency. That class-action settlement, which was filed by claimants who received unemployment insurance benefits during the pandemic and then were told they owed money back to the state and,
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