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IBM plans to end final-salary pensions
News Taking action to maintain competitiveness in the marketplace and introduce greater predictability to long-term pension provision costs, IBM UK communicated to UK employees [the] initiation of a consultation process regarding a package of pensions...
[July 8, 2009, 16:32]
Fujitsu staff could strike over pensions, pay
News IT workers at Fujitsu Services are being sounded out about a strike over pay and pensions, the UK's largest union said on Monday. Fujitsu Services is a highly profitable and successful company which is seeking to take advantage of the recession to...
[August 3, 2009, 17:21]
Elision Selects InputAccel to Help NHS Pensions Agency Go Paperless
White Papers Initially, the NHS Pension Agency set out to solve several problems. Its access to information was slow since the file store was located 6 miles away in Poulton. Their aim was to improve the service to members of the pension scheme by providing the...
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
Gov't departments reveal laptop losses
News Ministers have revealed the number of laptops lost or stolen from their departments, with the Department for Work and Pensions mislaying 41 laptops last year. Work and pensions minister Jim Knight said that out of around 9,700 laptops used by his...
[July 14, 2009, 8:42]
Courts link up with DWP database
News Magistrates' courts are to be given access to databases held by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as part of an effort to crack down on criminals who avoid paying fines, ministers announced on Tuesday.
[November 30, 2004, 14:15]
DWP attacked over delays to benefit-fraud IT system
News The Department for Work and Pensions has been accused of failing to measure benefit fraud properly because of its tardiness in improving IT systems. But in its report on Monday, PAC said the system does not cover key elements of the Department for...
[July 8, 2008, 11:51]
Project Sunrise Brings a New Dawn for Scottish Life
White Papers Leading UK life assurance and pensions firm Scottish Life relies totally on its policy and pensions administration systems, which were hosted on an ageing UNISYS mainframe platform. It had become one of the largest applications in the world to be...
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
The importance of good specs
Leader Today, Alan Johnson -- the work and pensions secretary -- is to be grilled by a select committee on why a $450m IT project at the Child Support Agency still doesn't work, a year and a half after it was 'implemented'.
[November 17, 2004, 12:15]
HMRC loses thousands of pensioners' details
News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs has admitted losing the personal details of over 6,500 people claiming pensions. The cartridge had been sent to the Cardiff office by Countrywide Assured, a life assurance and pensions company.
[December 18, 2007, 17:02]
DWP punishes 20 staff for data-protection breaches
News The Department for Work and Pensions took disciplinary action against 20 staff in the last financial year for disclosure of information. The two organisations are broadly comparable, as both process very large amounts of personal data and have...
[June 4, 2008, 15:38]
DWP cuts £50m off major tech projects
News The Department for Work and Pensions has cut 3.1 percent from the cost of nine of its largest IT programmes since March. The nine projects now have a total estimated cost of £1.56bn, £50m less than the £1.61bn estimated cost given when the...
[November 24, 2008, 13:56]
Putting IT people out to pasture
News Pensions are a problem area. Pensions are about those of working age producing goods and services, some of which are consumed by those too young or too old to work. I have some pensions held in managed funds.
[October 8, 2002, 14:36]
Government admits over 850 laptops lost since 2002
News The Department for Work and Pensions alone has seen 248 laptops go astray over the last six years. Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have reported 248 laptops lost, stolen or missing between 2002, the department's first full year...
[March 27, 2008, 16:01]
Microsoft upgrade knocks out 80,000 government PCs
News Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the PC in the sprawling department, which numbers some 100,000 employees.
[November 26, 2004, 11:10]
Jobcentre IT systems hit problems
News The MPs on Parliament's Work and Pensions Committee highlighted figures obtained by the Public and Commercial Services union indicating that Jobcentre Plus contact centres are failing to process claims successfully for two-thirds of calls.
[January 27, 2006, 15:50]
MPs tire of IT failings
News MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee have called on ministers to tell the truth about the CSA's failing IT systems and announce targets for transferring cases across from old databases. Liberal Democrat shadow work and pensions secretary Steve...
[January 27, 2005, 10:45]
Government rejects IT recommendations
News The Work and Pensions Select Committee report in July said the CSA system, designed by EDS, is an "appalling waste of public money" and that it should be scrapped if it is not fully operational by the end of the year.
[October 22, 2004, 10:10]
Ministers blamed over £30m ID fraud
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was warned about the flaw more than six months ago but only closed the tax credit portal down last week after it discovered criminals had used the identities of 1,500 civil servants at the Department of Work and...
[December 6, 2005, 7:55]
Web site offers pension contribution advice
News The site also features a guide to pensions and their potential pitfalls. The TUC is lobbying the government to create a compulsory pensions system in which all employers would have to contribute 10 percent of pay to their employees' pension funds.
[January 20, 2003, 10:54]
Failed gov't IT projects cost £273m
News Department for Work and Pensions m of projects were axed, including £135m for the cancelled Benefits Processing Replacement Programme project handled by IBM and PA Consulting, and £11.2m for the retirement planner being run by Accenture and EDS
[October 21, 2008, 8:31]
