BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A letter sent to U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu may clear up a major sticking point in the haggling over whether Louisiana should accept $98 million in federal stimulus money to expand unemployment benefits.Gov. Bobby Jindal has said he’s refusing the money because it would force businesses to pay higher unemployment taxes when the federal dollars run out.Critics say the state can undo the benefits once the stimulus money is gone. Jindal disagrees, saying federal officials could force Louisiana to repay the money if the benefit expansion is reversed.Now, the U.S. Department of Labor has weighed in. A deputy assistant secretary sent Landrieu a letter this week, saying the money won’t have to be repaid if the state retracts the benefit expansion when the federal dollars are spent.——Contact The Daily Reveille [email protected]