<prompt> Human: About 8 years ago my girlfriend was laid off from her job and applied for and received unemployment for 6 or so months. During this time she was completely without work, and when she got a new job, she stopped receiving benefits. Evidently during those 6 months that she was on unemployment, her old job had sent her a 50 commission check that she didnt know existed, and didnt even know existed since she had relocated to a new address. The only way she found this out was when after she had been off unemployment they sent her a letter telling her that her claim was fraudulent, and required her to pay back approximately 6k that she had received. She filled out some form, and evidently they made a judgement against her, and then forced her to pay it back by taking her tax returns every year. They told her the only way she could do anything would be to hire a lawyer.I know it has been a long time since this happened, but is there anything she can do at this point? She still has very little money, and certainly not enough to hire a lawyer.  <response>: This story sounds like theres a lot of facts missing. 