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Sept. 21, 2021Topeka, Kan. | By: AP
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A software company urged Kansas to upgrade its computer system for handling claims for unemployment benefits but the state didn't heed that advice five years before a flood of fraudulent claims during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Oracle proposed in 2015 that the Kansas Department of Labor do the upgrade to prevent fraud.
Department leaders in then-Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's administration concluded much of an upgrade could be handled in-house.
But an IT architect who worked on a Department of Labor modernization project canceled in 2011 said accepting Oracle's proposal would have minimized fraud. An recent audit suggests Kansas may have paid $700 million to fraudsters.
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