Tens of thousands may be eligible for debt forgiveness from COVID unemployment overpayments. The New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty’s workers’ rights director speaks with KC Counts about how the process and how to get help. Here is a transcript of her conversation with Stephanie Welch:
KC Counts:
So this goes back quite a few years here. Of course, things do take their time to get through the courts. But we’re talking about people who received unemployment benefits during COVID, what a time, and then had to repay those benefits, right? But erroneously so…
Stephanie Welch:
Many benefits were going out to people during the pandemic, and many of those benefits were through new federal programs. So…