When the coronavirus pandemic first hit home, millions of jobs were shed within weeks. Thankfully, lawmakers stepped up and boosted unemployment benefits at the start of the pandemic to help jobless workers who may not have had savings to fall back on.
But a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that state unemployment programs overpaid jobless benefits by a whopping $12.9 billion during the first year of the pandemic. And that’s a lot of money to go to waste.
When the pandemic-fueled economic crisis first erupted, state unemployment systems were inundated with jobless claims. And as states scrambled to get aid out to the people who needed it, certain details may have slipped through the cracks, resulting in a host of overpayments.
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