TWC To Start Collecting Unemployment Over Payments

The Texas Workforce Commission issued 46,651 notices of overpayment of unemployment benefits to Texans, which totals more than $32 million since March 20. TWC attributes errors caused by users, such as marking incorrect information on their unemployment claim, as the reason for most failures. Causing any over-payment happens when TWC pays unemployment benefits that someone was not eligible to receive. State law mandates TWC to recover all unemployment benefits over-payments,