MO lawmakers say Labor Department went back on its word to halt collections Missouri lawmakers working to resolve unemployment overpayment issues and last updated 2021-04-15 18:59:37-04 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. â Missouri lawmakers claim the Department of Labor went back on its word to halt collections of overpayment money. 41 Action News first reported this issue in July 2020, when Missourians reported receiving notices of overpayment from the agency. The notices said they had been overpaid due to no fault of their own, through agency error and they needed to pay that money back. After months of stress and struggling to get any information about the notices, the agency explained about 45,000 Missourians had received them.