LANSING — The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency is beginning to collect benefit overpayments that they say were mistakenly distributed.

The UIA says that overpayments may have occurred if someone made an error on their application, if they weren’t able to work or gave knowingly false information to the agency.

The Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity has already sent letters to recipients that they say were overpaid.

Anyone who has claimed unemployment insurance since March 2020 could be included in the clawback.

Ongoing lawsuits have prevented the department from collecting overpayments since the start of the pandemic.

Overpayment information and resources for waiver requests can be found with your Michigan Web Account Manager .

Potential reasons for a waiver includ

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