Recieved notice of overpayment of unemployment

I recieved a notice of overpayment of unemployment. Apparently I inputed incorrect income for partial weeks worked. I was sent a notice to give my side of the events. I would simply like to resolve this situation as soon as possible regarding repayment.I want to stay away from anything that could be reviewed as fraud.What I am looking for is terms or any legal speak to just say I want to repay it as soon as possible with minimal fees associated to the overpayment. I am in Michigan i that makes much difference. From what I can tell the overpayment looks to be less then $300

I don't think you need any "legal-speak."

Please read the following from the MI unemployment website:

http://www.michigan.gov/uia/0,1607,7-118-26831_27122_27127-37811--,00.html

Especially this:

• "The UIA can forgive repayment of restitution when the incorrect payment was due to the UIA’s clerical error in calculating the benefit payment; or when the error occurred because the employer failed to provide the UIA with requested information or provided incorrect information; or when the unemployed worker has a low household income and repaying the amount would cause the unemployed worker extreme financial hardship."

If you have to respond in writing, you can try explaining (simply) that you unintentionally made arithmetical errors and ask that the overpayment be forgiven if you are experiencing financial hardship. 

If you don't want to go the financial hardship route you probably need only say that you appear to have unintentionally made errors in arithmetic, sorry, here's my check. Attach a check for the amount of the overpayment and that should be the end of it. Make sure you keep copies of the document and the check in your permanent records.

No guarantees, of course, but in the grand scheme of unemployment money you are a small fish in a big pond and I don't think anything further will come of it.

Thanks. The only issues I can seem to think of is I am not quite sure how much the overpayment is. I have done the caculations and I am not quite sure what I did when I did it. I cannot find my records for that period but most likely it was a partial work week. They paid me a certain amount for my partial week I am just wondering if I should send them back what they sent me. They claim to have the overpayment penalty set at 2x the overpayment, and 4x the overpayment for fraud. I am just looking for a good way to say hey I screwed up and I want to pay you back and be done with it.

You wrote:

 I was sent a notice to give my side of the events

How does the notice say for you to give your side of events: Fill out a form, call up, go in, something else?

And did they give you any figures as to how they arrived at the overpayment.

its a simple form. on one side they have their record of my earnings and asked for mine again. The gross is less then a 40 hr week. On the other side they request a statement to defend my original report of earnings, so my side so to speak.

Is $300 the maximum you would have to pay back?

They're allowing you an opportunity to tell them if you think the State's computation is wrong and why.  If you made an honest mistake, just tell them so.  If you don't have your payroll stubs from the week(s) in question, then ask your employer to give you your gross weekly wages for each week and report that on the form.

There's no legal speak required. Explain what happened as simply and directly as you can.