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Audit: Inadequate control to prevent state unemployment scam

by Nicholas K. Geranios
| December 18, 2020 10:27 AM

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The state Employment Security Department did not have adequate controls to prevent a slew of illegal unemployment insurance claims last spring that totaled about $600 million and grew into the largest fraud in state history, the Washington State Auditor said Friday.

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