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Washington Times MENTOR, Ohio — Facing questions about his campaigning for re-election while millions of Americans still await government relief efforts from Superstorm Sandy, President Obama said Saturday that one of the disaster’s positive results was “leaders of different political parties working together to fix what’s broken.” “It’s a spirit that says, ‘We’re all in this together,’ ” Mr. Obama told about 4,000 supporters in a high-school gym in northeast [...] Southwest Airlines charged Romona Cobian $11,407 for a ticket to Los Angeles. “My stomach just flip flopped. I thought ‘oh, what’s going on?’ They’re going to deplete my bank account.” They did, leaving Cobian with no way to pay her credit card bills, buy gas or even food. Her debit card statements show Southwest charged her 51 times the cost of the $135 airfare and then tacked on a strange additional charge of nearly $4500. http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/08/09/call-kurtis-southwest-billing-glitch-leaves-customers-with-no-way-to-pay-bills/ Bonnie Kavoussi In one state, the jobless now have to pay the government. Colorado accidentally overpaid $128 million in unemployment benefits last year, and now the state is billing the jobless to get that money back, the Denver Post and Associated Press reported. States across the country accidentally overpaid $5.1 billion in unemployment benefits, largely because of clerical mistakes rather than fraud, according to government officials quoted in the Denver Post. It is unclear whether [...] |
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