LANSING (AP) — Michigan will be unable to rule that someone committed unemployment benefits fraud unless a state worker verifies it under legislation signed by Gov. Rick Snyder.
The law OK’d Monday prohibits what’s known as “auto-adjudication.”
It codifies a change the state Unemployment Insurance Agency put in place in 2015 after thousands of people receiving jobless benefits were mistakenly accused of fraud by a computer system.
Snyder’s administration announced earlier that the director of the agency was reassigned in the wake of criticism over the problem.
- Posted January 12, 2017
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State bars adjudicating fraud cases without human approval
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