From the department of waste, fraud and abuse: New data from the U.S. Department of Labor tells the sad tale of how states made some $19 billion in "improper" unemployment benefits over the last three years. In Arkansas, that total runs to more than $161 million in erroneous payments from 2008-2011, according to DOL. The lion's share of the erroneous payments, 63 percent, were made to people who continued receiving benefits after they had gone back to work, when they were no longer … [Read more...]