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The city is going to investigate whether it’s been jobbed by its jobs contractors.

Officials at the Department of Small Business Services said yesterday they plan to review the reports submitted by vendors who have contracts to find jobs for unemployed New Yorkers.

The review comes in the wake of findings by the Department of Investigation that as many as 1,400 job placements claimed by one of the contractors, SEEDCO, were fictitious.

“As part of its overall audit and validation process, SBS will also be reviewing the four vendors operating Workforce 1 Centers to confirm that this was an isolated incident,” said Meredith Weber, the agency spokeswoman.

Investigators determined that more than a dozen employees at SEEDCO, one of the city’s premier nonprofits, engaged in “systematic” fraud to pump up its placement rate. All of SEEDCO’s contracts were transferred to another provider on Friday.

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