After repeated delays, more than $30 million spent and little to show for it, a decadelong effort to upgrade the state’s antiquated workers’ compensation system has been put on hold.

On Friday, WaTech, the state’s information technology oversight office, suspended “all project activities and expenditures” for the $292 million upgrade due to a “continued lack of progress and ability to execute” by the state Department of Labor & Industries, according to a WaTech memo on the state IT dashboard.

Since 2015, Labor & Industries has worked to modernize the aging technology used to manage medical claims by workers injured on the job.

A decade later, the upgrade hasn’t left the planning stages, and was still another nine years and at least $240 million from being done, according to state report

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