Illinois auditor general breaks down latest IDES audit – WGEM (Quincy)

Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino’s team found IDES didn’t create an audit trail to document claims according to federal standards. He suggested the problem may have been much smaller if IDES implemented the unemployment insurance standards the state has used for years. “If you see 15 claims coming in from one house, the computer would normally kick that out and say, ‘flag it and take a look at this.’ That wasn’t there on the PUA side. And fraudsters and cyber criminals are ingenious.”