Computer network crash hobbles pensions department
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A computer breakdown within Britain's largest government ministry, which doles out retirement pensions and unemployment benefits, left civil servants in the lurch for a week, writing claims out by hand, a ministry spokesman said.
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The crisis in the UK occupational pensions sector seemingly scaled new heights this week as Federal Mogul, the insolvent American car parts manufacturer, finally pulled the plug on the pension fund of its UK subsidiary Turner &amp; Newall.
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Workers losing their jobs at a County Londonderry computer company are to hear details of redundancy terms.
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One of the biggest computer failures in Whitehall's history causes chaos at the work and pensions department.
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LONDON -- After continuous computer failures forced the top civil servant of the U.K.'s Department of Work and Pensions' Child Support Agency (CSA) to step down from his job this week, the government is considering scrapping a welfare case management and telephony system developed in large part by Electronic Data Systems (EDS).
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NOVEMBER 26, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IT system failures continued to plague the UK government this week, when as many as 80,000 civil servants working for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) had to deal with what is being described in the local
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Final salary pension schemes' finances have been dented by the credit crunch, the Pension Protection Fund says.
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Hundreds of workers are expected to lose their jobs as the struggling internet company implements cost-cutting measures to stop its slide.
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About 70,000 BT business broadband customers have had trouble connecting to the internet on Friday due to a technical fault.
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VALLEY FORGE, Pa. - A computer network outage at The Vanguard Group, which manages $1.1 trillion in mutual fund assets, temporarily left customers unable to access online accounts Thursday afternoon.
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Two-thirds of network shut down in dispute over job security and pensions.
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The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has suffered what has been described as the biggest computer crash in government history after a software upgrade.
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By Michael Sluss, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Jun. 21--RICHMOND -- Two hardware failures in the state's central computer system forced Department of Motor Vehicles offices to close early Wednesday and created problems for other government agencies.
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The computer crash that shut down systems at Britain&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions only caused delays in dealing with new and amended claims, according to the agency.
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A Â£141m computer system used to process benefits payments is scrapped, the BBC learns.
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Business & money: Loss of IT chief is only the latest setback in ambitious scheme to computerise records.
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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.