If wages are being garnished from unemployment overpayments what can be done??? My fiance, the soul provider of our family of 5, recently has begun to have his wages garnished for this reason and we cannot survive without his full pay check!!! To make matters worse, he supposedly owes the state of Minnesota for this overpayment 16000.00!!! Yep, 16 THOUSAND dollars!!! Like who in the heck can pay that back!!! I have heard that bankruptcy might not do anything at all because it is a debt owed to the state, does anyone know if that is true?