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Taxpayer funding to pay state legal claims tops $20M | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The bill covers 36 claims, including wrongful convictions, prisoner deaths and school sexual-assault settlements, plus $1.2 million to repay federal rental aid fraud.
The state is preparing to pay $20.4 million this year to settle legal claims that include a $1.2 million reimbursement of federal funding spent on COVID-19 rental assistance for undeserving households.