Ohio Kills Its Plan to Collect Welfare Overpayments

Thanks to advocacy by the Ohio Poverty Law Center and others, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services announced that it will no longer seek to collect very old welfare overpayments from current and former Ohio welfare recipients.

Read the story in the Columbus Dispatch here.

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