GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Tens of thousands are still waiting for payment from Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency. Their bills are overdue, they can’t afford food, and they’re worried about losing ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Michigan Unemployment system is overloaded, from dropped calls to people still waiting for money. It seems the agency was not prepared for massive layoffs. Frustrated workers ...

LANSING, Mich. — It's been a mess. The pandemic forced thousands of Michiganders out of their jobs, and to keep food on the table, most turned to unemployment to supplement their income while they ...

The mess always looks worse in the light of day, and details of the gross mismanagement of Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency are as bad as we could imagine. During the past few decades, being ...

LANSING — Austin Bluemel was sure the letter was a fluke. The state’s Unemployment Insurance Agency must have made a mistake when it sent the Traverse City restaurant worker a letter stating he’d been ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The last couple of years for Marie Hosep have been a financial mess. "I am not a crier, but I cried when I got the letter that said I didn't owe the money anymore,” said Hosep.