Crash in Benefits System Caused by Human Error
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Human error caused the crash that left 80 percent 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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Staff at the United Kingdom&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the computers in the sprawling department.
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A computer screen upgrade has crashed 80,000 government terminals at the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK. EDS and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) were blamed.
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A software upgrade caused some 40,000 computers to crash at the UK government&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions last week. The crash of the Windows-based systems took most of the department&#39;s computers offline for five working days.
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Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall.
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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How your computer could be costing you thousands of dollars.
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Taxing Peter to overpay Paul Fraud and error in the tax credits system is costing the UK economy at least Â£1bn a year, according to MPs.â¦
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The number of people claiming jobless benefits has fallen unexpectedly in November.
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Blog: Researcher finds a basic cookie handling error that could compromise Windows PCs.
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Cures for an update gone bad, a trashed Registry, and a shutdown failure.
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By Cindy Krischer Goodman, The Miami Herald  Mar. 7--Last Monday morning my e-mail shut down, crashed, kaput. I deleted and deleted, but it wasn't enough to make a difference. As the day went on, my blood pressure shot up. The cause of the crash was in-box overload.
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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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Risky business IT systems have become so integral to businesses that their failure can have disastrous consequences for an organisation, according to analysts Gartner.â¦
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Problems with a PeopleSoft ERP rollout in Palm Beach County, Fla., have caused significant payroll problems for numerous school district workers.
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Con-pensation Chinese PC users whose machines were crippled by a dodgy software update from Symantec have two weeks to apply for compensation. The company has announced that the 50,000 users affected by the error are entitled to some free Norton anti-virus licenses.â¦
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After the Child Support Agency (CSA) debacle earlier this month, when it emerged that the Â£450m system built by EDS still isn&#39;t working properly a year and a half after its supposed completion, the DWP crash seemed impossibly incompetent.