Labor Department seeks to recover $67 million in unemployment overpayments since ’19

Read Article The state Labor Department is seeking to recover of 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.