The state Labor Department is seeking to recover about $67.5 million in overpayments in unemployment insurance paid to more than 8,000 Kansans over a seven-year period.
The agency is sending out bills to 8,526 people who received more money than they were eligible to receive from Jan. 1, 2019, until Jan. 1, 2026. Officials said 54% of those owe less than $5,000.
Labor officials said the overpayments represented less than 1% of 1.5 million claims filed in that time frame.
While the Labor Department has always tracked overpayments, the agency is moving to an . . .
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