DWP wants to spend more of our money on IT

May 3, 2008

As if the child support agency hadn’t cost the UK taxpayer enough money, the Department for Work and Pensions wants to increase the amount of money spent on their IT systems.

They want to significantly increase the amount of money spent on them over the next two years.

The DWP has a total amount of £1.9 Billion budgeted on their IT projects between now and 2010. The CSA were responsible for throwing away £233 million of that money. Yours and my money.

The DWP has already completed IT upgrades on the Jobcentreplus CRM system, online pensions forecast system, HR and financial system improvements, state pension system, benefits debt recovery and they replaced the legacy benefits systems.

It is the CSA however that is costing the government the most money as they have severe IT problems with their system.

The CSA stated in November that it intended to make huge IT upgrades to its EDS CS2 system (which cost £450 million originally) as well as telecoms enhancements, costing a further £320 million.

The £450 million EDS system had 500 separate faults, which were discovered three years after it had been built.

Our money is in safe hands eh?

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