State gets $11M to update unemployment insurance system

What You Need To Know

• • The funding comes via a UI Information Technology modernization grant from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration

• • The funds will be used to update the state’s UI systems to ensure they are user-friendly, accurate in determining and distributing unemployment benefits, and better able to prevent UI-related fraud

• • Historic job losses during the pandemic worsened existing issues in the unemployment insurance system, and states had problems processing unemployment insurance claims due to outdated IT systems

• From 2020 to 2021, improper unemployment insurance payments skyrocketed from approximately $8 billion to $78.1 billion, according to the labor department
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