Days after the Kansas Department of Labor announced plans to move forward with a highly anticipated revamp of its unemployment systems, legislators quickly moved to give themselves more say in the process. The plan comes as part of a months-long effort to address the agency's recent woes, with legislators pushing to investigate the scale of fraudulent payments, ensure businesses aren't affected by those bogus payouts and seeks to shore up the fund used for unemployment benefits. During the COVID-19 pandemic, KDOL became overwhelmed with a backlog of unemployment claims, as well as a rash of bogus filings, which officials attribute in part to out-of-date fraud controls.