By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefState auditors blocked $61.1 million in overpayments approved by the State Workers' Compensation Board (SWCB) last year due to what board chairman Robert Beloten attributes primarily to "fat-finger" data-entry errors.New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said in a report emailed to Comptroller Office subscribers on Saturday that his office found 707 processing errors between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2011, involving $61.1 million in overpayments and another $450,000 in underpayments from five funds overseen by the board.DiNapoli's office said ...
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