Michael Ferguson

Michael Ferguson: OTTAWA - Tens of millions of dollars in employment insurance overpayments are not being recovered because government staff arent meeting deadlines, the federal auditor general has found, according to The Chronicle Herald. Roughly one-third of this is due to fraud, while the rest is due to normal administrative errors, said auditor general Michael Ferguson. The government is writing off $432 million as doubtful for recovery and The government is owed $662 million in accumulated overpayments and interest as of March 31, 2012, according to the report. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.