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Committee OKs funding stream to modernize state's unemployment IT system, codifies fraud prevention
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE · April 5, 2021
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Summary
The committee passed a bill that codifies Department of Workforce Services fraud-prevention measures and earmarks part of an employer-paid stabilization tax to fund a three-year rebuild of the state's unemployment IT system, which the presenter described as 'over 50 years old.'
Jim Hudson of the Department of Commerce told the committee the bill takes two main steps: make fraud-prevention measures mandatory and earmark a portion of the employer-paid stabilization tax to fund a multi-year modernization of the…
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