Whitmer’s Michigan paid $3.9B in pandemic unemployment relief to ineligible claimants: audit
Improper payments allegedly continued after abuses were flagged, state says it won’t claw back federal taxpayer dollars, and auditor general says “we don’t know” if governor knew of corner-cutting.
This week’s Golden Horseshoe is awarded to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Unemployment Insurance Agency, which disbursed an estimated $3.9 billion in improper pandemic unemployment benefits and continued to pay ineligible claimants after being alerted to the issue, a state audit found.
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