Unemployment overpayment bill passes Missouri House
Affected MO residents worry about wage garnishment
Unemployment overpayment bill passes Missouri House
and last updated 2021-03-05 19:16:31-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Missourians who were overpaid unemployment monies during the COVID-19 pandemic are one step closer to keeping the cash.
The Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations paid out $148 million in benefits to people it later found to be ineligible, including $40 million from state coffers and $108 million from federal programs.
The Labor Department says only 3% of it was fraudulent, but many of those Missouri residents have spent
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waive the federal overpayments. It has passed the Missouri House of Representatives, but those residents worry the state will garnish wages or tax refunds before the bill becomes law.