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Amy Pechacek: “We were administering benefits, you know, hundreds of…”

Featuring: Amy Pechacek, Acting Wisconsin Secretary of Workforce Development

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Newsmakers: Wisconsin Workforce Updates from DWD Secretary-Designee Amy Pechacek

Published | Video Starts at 15:28

Can you talk about kind of the progress that you're making, the updates that have been made to the system? Absolutely, yeah. So, Lisa, I walked into an agency where I was surprised to see that We were administering benefits, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars to billions of dollars of benefits throughout the pandemic on a 50 year old mainframe cobalt computer system. I am literally talking a black screen with the green blinky cursor where you have to press F5 to navigate. I mean it's. I was shocked when I saw this. (15:28–15:42)

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Asserts that the unemployment benefits system was outdated, using a 50-year-old mainframe.

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