In the middle of last December, Sandra Griffin saw a new message pop up in her online unemployment insurance account.
“You were overpaid by no fault of your own — that’s what the letter states, by no fault of your own — and you are required to pay it back,” says Griffin, paraphrasing the message.
The overpayment in this case totaled nearly $8,000, money she now owes to the Missouri Department of Labor — and money that was long ago spent after she lost her job helping with art programs in St. Louis schools.
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