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Unfair Unemployment Insurance Burden

Peabody Area Chamber of Commerce Joins Call to Protect Small Businesses from Unfair Unemployment Insurance Burden The Peabody Area Chamber of Commerce stands with businesses in opposing efforts by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to pass on the cost of a $2.1 billion unemployment insurance (UI) overpayment mistake to local employers. This error, which occurred during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, is now being placed on the shoulders of the business community—many of whom are still working to