For unemployment advocates, Mauricio’s story reflects a sense of déjà vu inspired by the most recent round of pandemic-era problems at the Michigan jobless agency — as a wave of new errors and overpayment demands by the state unemployment agency follow the ebbing tide of false fraud cases from 2015.
“That’s what makes me think I’m losing my mind: The exact same thing happened all over again,” said Tony Paris, an unemployment lawyer at Detroit's Sugar Law Center for Social and Economic Justice. “The amount of calls, the desperation, the onslaught, the news coverage — it’s all the same.” … see full story at Detroit News