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Mistake: Thousands told to return unemployment overpayment

| September 21, 2020 12:03 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A programming mistake caused more than 4,000 out-of-work Louisiana residents to get notices saying they’d been overpaid thousands of dollars in unemployment compensation and had to return the money, officials say.

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