Opinion | The government is setting hard-hit Americans up for disaster by forcing them to pay back unemployment benefits. By EoinHiggins_.
According to a July report from the federal Government Accountability Office,went out from the Treasury during the pandemic — just 2% of all unemployment funds sent out during that time. According to the same report, only a small fraction of that overpayment is attributable to fraud, a large majority was simple accounting or clerical error.
Cook, who lives in the city of Neosho, Missouri, was working as a bartender at a local movie theater when COVID swept through the state. The pandemic put him out of a job, but state and federal unemployment got him through the worst of it. But on March 27, 2021, Missouri determined Cook was actually ineligible for the benefits he had received due to limited availability.
Cook added that he wasn't contacted over the actual error, but he did receive a email at 2 a.m. telling him he had new correspondence from the unemployment office. But appeals take a while, as Jennifer Reyes, a restaurant worker in Ohio who is dealing with her state's attempts to recoup unemployment benefits it paid her, found out. Reyes was only out of work briefly — from March 16 to May 26 of 2020 — but the benefits she was provided to survive were still essential.
After calling repeatedly, Jennifer got a link to appeal online, which is now being processed. She hopes it goes her way, but said it's a"pain" and that she believes that's on purpose.
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