Unemployment Insurance Agency

If there is one thing many Michigan residents can agree on, it’s huge problems surrounding the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency. The agency has been plagued with problems going back to before the COVID-19 shutdowns.

If you did not file for benefits or receive them and are sent a 1099-G form by the Michigan Unemployment Benefit Agency, that is your tip-off that someone fraudulently obtained your personal information and then used that data to file for benefits and directed the money to themselves.

The man who tried to keep the agency on an even keel as state-ordered COVID-19 virus business closings threw hundreds of thousands out of their jobs creating huge backlogs of service and please for help has left.

Nancy needs to leave the shutdown hair salon in San Francisco where she received her illegal cut and shampoo and get back to Washington and work out a deal for at least the additional unemployment benefits if she and her party really cares about the people.

The lawmakers say the agency responsible for managing unemployment benefits assistance is running into a big hole with no vision to work out of it.

Now we hear the state has sent overpayments to about 3,000 residents to the tune of over eight million dollars. The state Unemployment Insurance Agency vows it will get the money back.

Marshall Republican State Representative Matt Hall says he is more than frustrated with the Agency’s handling of well over 100 thousand benefits applications that aren’t being processed and the state residents involved are not being contacted.

Michigan’s system, like others throughout America, is being hit by scammers daily. Over the last several weeks, tens of thousands of new claims filed are suspected of being fraudulent.