Company that bungled Florida unemployment system gets new $135 million state contract

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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is preparing to award a nine-figure state contract to the company responsible for Florida’s disastrous unemployment system.

Deloitte Consulting beat out four other companies for a contract to centralize and manage Florida’s Medicaid data, the state Agency for Health Care Administration announced Monday. The agency is expected to enter negotiations with Deloitte in the coming weeks.

When Deloitte was hired by the state in 2011, its task was to update Florida’s antiquated unemployment system. However, when the new system, known as CONNECT, launched in 2013,similar to the one millions of Floridians experienced this year: It crashed constantly, and job seekers went weeks and months without receiving benefits.

DeSantis ordered his inspector general, Melinda Miguel, to open an investigation into why Deloitte was awarded the CONNECT contract. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, about one in five Floridians benefit from the federal program in some form or another.

 

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