Government Asks Employees To Pay Back $3 Million In Benefits

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overpaid benefits recipients paying back government
overpaid benefits recipients paying back government

Benefits blunders cost taxpayers millions every year. New York, for example, paid out an extra $140 million in Medicaid benefits thanks to a computer glitch. But now there's been a mistake so egregious that some of those who were overpaid will have to pay it back on an installment plan.

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