Residents who were wrongly accused of defrauding Michigan’s unemployment program won a major ruling Friday as the state Supreme Court set a favorable deadline for people to sue over decisions spit out from a disastrous computer system and enforced by staff. An automated computer system used by then-Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration was a mess. People were accused of cheating to get jobless aid based solely on computers. They were forced to repay money, along with substantial penalties, and some were even forced into bankruptcy. Attorney Jennifer Lord said 40,000 fraud determinations were ultimately overturned.
— source nbcnews.com | Apr 6, 2019
MiDAS fiasco