Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency is seeking $2.7 billion in benefits from about 350,000 Michigan workers.

Michigan's UIA said these workers were overpaid benefits but it wasn't able to request repayments because of a court order in a class-action lawsuit against the agency.

The first payments for affected workers are due on Sept. 29, the UIA said.

About 350,000 Michigan workers who filed for unemployment insurance benefits as far back as March 2020 must return up to $2.7 billion in benefits, Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency said on Sept. 8.

Many of the affected claims were filed during the height of the covid pandemic, the agency said, but it wasn't able to request repayments because of a court order in a class-action lawsuit against the agency .

That class-action s

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