State Scraps Computer Project; Millions Spent On Faulty Effort to Track Unemployment Claims

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Madison - The state has pulled the plug on what was to be a $41.2 million computer project after it spent $10 million on a key component that has yet to work.

The suspension of the federally funded EnABLES project comes in the midst of an audit of state information technology projects and less than a year after the University of Wisconsin System abandoned a payroll system that had cost $26 million.

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State Scraps Computer Project; Millions Spent On Faulty Effort to Track Unemployment Claims

The state has been beset with a host of computer problems in recent years, including a failed e-mail upgrade, a long-delayed voter registration system and a database that has not accurately tracked sales tax collections. Together, the value of those troubled ...

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