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The signing of a one-point-two-million-dollar contract Thursday gets a major upgrade to Wisconsin’s unemployment computer system going.
The Department of Workforce Development had already received a $2.4 million federal grant to bring the 50-year-old system up-to-date.
Governor Tony Evers says a new call center will operate 24 hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. T
he governor has blamed the aging system for causing delays of months – in some cases – for Wisconsin residents applying for unemployment benefits.
