In 2015, attorney Tony Paris was working 12-hour days attending hearings with his clients who were wrongly accused by Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency of getting payments they weren't eligible for.

He had so many clients caught up in the false fraud scandal — that was later attributed to a computer system that operated without human oversight — that he got vocal fold nodules from talking so much, leading to voice loss. Now, about a year and a half into the pandemic, he's getting close to losing his voice again.

That's because, over the last few weeks, Paris has spent every day working with clients both new and old to help them figure out how to "requalify" for jobless benefits after the state's UIA notified nearly 650,000 claimants in late June that some of the questions that qualified them for benefits were not approved by the U.S. Department of Labor. … see full story at Detroit Free Press