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Committee presses DHS on outdated county systems and whistleblower protections
Summary
Lawmakers told the Department of Human Services about county offices still using legacy systems and alleged retaliation against staff who reported fraud; DHS said modernization is necessary but expensive and promised further briefings and oversight work.
Committee members described county eligibility and billing systems that do not interoperate and rely on decades-old interfaces, a situation they said undermines program integrity and increases staff turnover. "They're using DOS from the nineties," Senator Glenn Gruenhagen said, arguing that multiple noncommunicating systems allow bad…
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