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New unemployment head balances paying claims, stopping fraud

by David Eggert
| December 3, 2020 12:03 AM

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's acting unemployment director told lawmakers on Wednesday that her office is trying to strike a balance between quickly paying benefits to jobless workers and preventing fraud, saying impostor claims are rampant in a backlog of approximately 90,000 cases.

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