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WISCONSIN INMATES WRONGLY GIVEN BENEFITS
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 -- 9:14 am
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
A new audit finds that Wisconsin prison inmates were wrongly given federal unemployment benefits.
The Legislative Audit Bureau report released Friday finds that more than $12 million in benefit payments and other questionable charges were made in the 2009 fiscal year.
The biggest chunk is nearly $10 million in unemployment benefit overpayments including some that went to prison inmates.
Audit Committee co-chair Sen. Robert Cowles says it is irritating that money was wrongly sent to inmates and it must stop. The audit says the money should be recovered from those who got it.
The audit says that in general state agencies complied with federal grant requirements in the process of administering $15 billion in aid, including $3.5 billion in stimulus money.
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