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MichMan

(11,910 posts)
1. I don't understand why this is so complicated
Tue Nov 9, 2021, 01:28 AM
Nov 2021

Last edited Tue Nov 9, 2021, 02:31 AM - Edit history (1)

Claimants got benefits they ultimately were not eligible for under the rules. Given that the rules were very lenient regarding eligibility, these obviously should have never been approved in the first place.

If the state decides that it isn't fair to make the recepients pay any of them back, they can elect to pay the money back to the federal government with state funds instead.

Forcing the burden on employers if they neither caused or benefitted from it would be the wrong way to remedy the situation IMO since it was caused by state incompetence.

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