SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois' troubled system for compensating injured state workers hands out money too readily, sometimes without medical evidence to back up a claim and occasionally paying benefits the hurt employee didn't even seek, according to an audit released Wednesday.
Auditor General William Holland suggested lawmakers follow up last year's overhaul of the workers' compensation system with further improvements in a report that found information about the process "incomplete, inaccurate, and inconsistent."
State workers claiming injury at work received $295 million on more than 26,000 claims from 2007 through 2010, the report found.
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