Single mother gets $16,067 bill after Whitmer unemployment debacle: ‘Thought of owing my state for the rest of my life makes me sick’

Single mother gets $16,067 bill after Whitmer unemployment debacle: ‘Thought of owing my state for the rest of my life makes me sick’

Across the state, more than 350,000 Michiganders are facing steep bills from the Michigan Unemployment Agency to fix mistakes made by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration during the pandemic. “The thought of owing my state for the rest of my life makes me sick,” Amanda Doubblestien, a single mother of three from White Cloud who was hit with a bill for $16,067, told MLive. The 42-year-old was forced to apply for unemployment for the first time …