HONOLULU -- On the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the so-called stimulus package that cost taxpayers $862 billion, there are mixed reviews over how much good it has or has not done.

The national Democratic Party sent out a document touting its success. KITV examined some of the claims and discovered what some are calling a few exaggerations.

KITV was not able to check every claim, or every statistic, but the few reporters did check showed some of the figures seem to be incorrect.

The document released by the Democratic Party Policy Committee in Washington is full of claims about how much money is flowing into Hawaii and how many jobs are being created or saved here.

For example, it said 600 jobs will be created on Oahu and the Big Island by alternative energy projects, specifically a $25 million grant for a bio-fuel refinery in Kapolei.

Tesoro is a partner in that project. The $25 million actually went to Honeywell, not a Hawaii company, a Tesoro spokesman said. The test project, which may start next year, will probably use existing workers, the spokesman said.

No one could tell KITV who, if anyone, is hiring 600 employees.

The news release quoted the Small Business Administration as saying the stimulus will create 15,000 new jobs in Hawaii, including 10 jobs at an unnamed cafe-bar in Chinatown. The district director of the SBA in Hawaii told KITV they cannot validate the information.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie said the release is likely a template sent out across the country.

"This is probably going out to every district in the country, except Honolulu it will say Milwaukee or wherever, and it'll be a cafe-bar in the World Mall in Minnesota. I think all this stuff is dumb," Abercrombie said.

Money has come to Hawaii and jobs have been created. State Rep. Marcus Oshiro, who heads the House Finance Committee, praised the stimulus package.

"Hawaii has certainly benefited from the stimulus monies. There are jobs we have created, new jobs and there are good projects going on right now, important projects for our community so it has helped Hawaii," Oshiro said.

Small business advocate Republican state Sen. Sam Slom questioned the Democratic Party's claims.

"We've laid off 60,000 people in the private sector in Hawaii since January 2009. So, I don't know where the jobs are coming from," Slom said.

The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said that figure is more like 30,000.

Slom said he included people who did not file for unemployment. He said he got his figures from the labor department.

DLIR officials said unemployment was up almost 2 percent in 2009.

Abercrombie said inaccurate claims do more harm than good.

"This kind of stuff is dysfunctional, I think. It further demoralizes the population. It makes people sick of politicians," Abercrombie said.