The
Department
for Work and Pensions (DWP) has quietly shelved a £140m IT system originally
designed to integrate the payment of a range of benefits.
The Benefits Processing Replacement Programme (BPRP) was announced three
years ago with a brief to save £60m a year by making the benefits payment
process more joined up.
The project was doomed from January when the new
Employment
Support Allowance (ESA) was introduced, changing the original aims of the
BPRP. However, parts of the BPRP system will be reused by the DWP for ESA
processes.
Last month,
vnunet.com's sister
title
Computing.co.uk
reported that the DWP's debt management unit, responsible for recovering money
owed to the government from benefit fraud or overpayments, had a backlog of
more than half a million
cases caused by software problems.
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