unemployment benefits

Jobless workers will be able to collect unemployment benefits for a little more than six months under bills signed Monday by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The deadline to file a claim for a settlement from the Unemployment Insurance Agency is December 20. A lawsuit alleges the agency took benefits back without properly reviewing workers' appeals.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer is trying to reassure tens of thousands of Michiganders who’ve been warned they might have to pay back federal jobless…