This story sickens me having, in my younger years, been laid off, stood in long lines for unemployment checks, while facing uncertainties. Imagine that stress, then wrongfully having those measly payments seized and exorbitant fines slapped on.

One of the largest, quietest and most life-stressing scandals of the previous state administration may finally see some justice. As many as 40,000+ victims were wrongly accused of Unemployment Insurance fraud.

The state has acknowledged that at least 20,000 Michigan residents - and possibly as many as 40,000 - were wrongly accused of fraud by a $47-million state computer system that the state operated without human supervision and with an error rate as high as 93%.

Those wrongly accused of fraud through robo-adjudications by the Michigan Integrated Data Automated System [[MiDAS) were subjected to highest-in-the-nation quadruple penalties and many were subjected to aggressive collection techniques such as wage garnishment and seizure of income tax refunds.
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When the error was discovered, and some victims attempted a suit to recover their assets and reputations, a lower court quashed their suit saying they filed too late.

Yesterday the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that two of the plaintiffs cases could proceed. A start.

IMO there should be Legislative investigation and every single working stiff who got stiffed should have any wrongfully seized assets returned in double.