“New York’s outdated unemployment insurance system likely contributed to at least $11 billion in improper payments during the COVID-19 pandemic, an audit from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found.”

Searching through the Internet, I found this headline but I don’t remember reading this in local newspapers.

Every New Yorker should be outraged. It’s $11 billion, not $11 million and it may be even higher. For years the state knew its unemployment system was outdated, but as usual, they did nothing.

And where was our state legislature? As usual asleep at the switch as they were when Gov. Cuomo was decimating nursing home residents.

John Frangos

Manhasset