Benefits you received to which you were not entitled are known as overpayments. Go to your message center, and look for a message with the subject "Notice of Determination Overpayment Waiver.This chapter deals with state law provisions identifying, establishing, and collecting overpayments. All states have provisions addressing these matters. Looking online it says that Non fraud overpayments can be paid through unemployment over the next 3 -4 years. If you do not make an unemployment overpayment appeal, you are forever agreeing to that potentially criminal determination.