Major I.T. Crash Hits UK Government Department
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A routine software upgrade of Microsoft-based desktop computers led to the crash of around 40,000 machines at the UK government's Department for Work and Pensions last week.
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ENGINEERS were today tackling a massive computer failure which has caused chaos at the Department for Work and Pensions. Up to 80 per cent of the ministryâs systems for processing millions of pension and benefit payments collapsed on Monday.
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Some 80,000 computers at the Department for Work and Pensions went down during &#39;a routine software upgrade&#39; of its Microsoft machines this week.
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A routine software upgrade of desktop PCs at the Department of Work and Pensions has left 80% of the ministry&#39;s computers unable to send or receive e-mails.
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A huge systems crash causes delays in processing some claims at the Department for Work and Pensions.
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A troubled welfare-case -anagement and telephony system developed largely by Electronic Data Systems has run into so many problems that U.K. government officials might pull the plug on it.
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Human error caused the crash that left 80 per cent of staff without access to benefits payment processing systems at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last month, supplier EDS has acknowledged.
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Government bodies have lost tens of millions of pounds in debts and fraud, a spending watchdog says.
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THOUSANDS of pensioners and people on benefits have been hit by a massive computer failure at the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Meeting next week to thrash out contracts The government is expected to concede some precious ground to the IT industry over difficult contractual negotiations that have just entered their third year.â¦