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Michigan ignored warnings about loose pandemic aid criteria

OCTOBER 19, 2021 | by Beth LeBlanc | GOVERNING

By Beth LeBlanc (The Detroit News), includes “The federal government warned Michigan in May 2020 to avoid adopting overly lenient qualifications for pandemic unemployment assistance as it carried out the federal jobless aid program. … The state didn't send letters asking people to recertify under different qualifications until late June — more than a year after the Department of Labor initially warned about the loose criteria.”

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