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RSS DWP1,500 civil servants victims of tax credit ID theft
News Criminals have stolen the identities of 1,500 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff and used them to make fraudulent claims on the government's tax credits website. The fraud came to light during compliance checks... [02 Dec 2005]
Watchdog blasts benefits agency IT
News The National Audit Office (NAO) has slammed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for failing to improve IT systems used for benefits payments. In a report on the DWP, the NAO said the extra work... [21 Nov 2005]
ID cards will spearhead anti-fraud battle
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said new technology will help it cut the £3bn it loses every year to errors and fraud and it plans to use the identity card across "all" of its operations to combat identity and... [13 Oct 2005]
New IT systems add to massive benefits losses
News New IT systems have increased the levels of benefit payments made in error by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). According to a 2003-04 report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the DWP... [11 Oct 2005]
Benefit cheats face "Robocop" fraud crackdown
News A series of radio, TV and newspaper adverts from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will attempt to put the frighteners on fraudsters by describing "powerful computer systems" that help identify cheats by... [03 Oct 2005]
Job applicants to face ID card checks
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has also estimated it will initially need 4,500 biometric card readers to verify ID card holders at a total cost of around £3.4m, although the LSE claims this figure could... [26 Sep 2005]
DWP gets all Firefox friendly
News The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) has pledged to make its websites compatible with as many browsers as possible, including the popular open source browser Firefox. Carl Mawson, the head of e-communications at the... [25 Aug 2005]
DWP to save millions from revamped EDS deal
News The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has slashed hundreds of millions of pounds from its IT spend through a "realigned" contract with EDS. The DWP said it will make substantial savings on its IT... [24 Aug 2005]
Microsoft scores government desktop mega deals
News The software giant has inked contracts with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the largest government department, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which is planning a move to Windows XP. The DWP... [28 Jul 2005]
CSA IT work drags on
News According to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), there are still 78,000 cases on the old system to be cleared, down from 130,000 a year ago. The DWP said no 'bulk' transfer of cases to the new... [22 Jul 2005]
Court database tracks down missing offenders
News Court staff will be able to discover the whereabouts of missing offenders who have changed address without notifying the courts by accessing the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) electronic Customer Information... [21 Jul 2005]
Government holds back £13.3m over CSA computer problems
News Tom Warsop, managing director of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) account at EDS said the new computer system is providing a day-to-day service to over 620,000 cases. He said progress is still being made and... [30 Mar 2005]
Atos Origin wins £500m government BPO deal
News Atos Origin has won a £500m business process outsourcing (BPO) contract to run medical assessment services for benefits claims to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). There is also an option for the... [16 Mar 2005]
Botched upgrade crashed 40,000 government PCs
News EDS has admitted that an error by one of its computer operators during a Microsoft Windows upgrade caused 40,000 PCs at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to crash last month. EDS has completed its investigation... [07 Dec 2004]
80,000 DWP computers fall over after upgrade
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. [26 Nov 2004]
