Budget 2018: Government funds Centrelink, Medicare payment system overhauls
The government plans to spend $316.2 million over four years as it enters the third stage of its massive overhaul of Australia’s welfare payment system.
The government plans to spend $316.2 million over four years as it enters the third stage of its massive overhaul of Australia’s welfare payment system.
Accenture has been chosen as the lead systems integrator for the first part of a program to overhaul Centrelink’s payment system.
Although it is still early days for the government’s massive overhaul of Centrelink’s welfare payment systems, the project is already delivering dividends, according to human services minister Alan Tudge.
The Department of Human Services has revealed that IBM and HP Enterprise will join the overhaul of the government’s welfare payment infrastructure.
The federal government has identified SAP as the preferred core software vendor for its mammoth Welfare Payment Infrastructure Transformation (WPIT) program.