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• 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.

• Government pushes ahead with work on Centrelink payment system

  Accenture has been chosen as the lead systems integrator for the first part of a program to overhaul Centrelink’s payment system.

• Centrelink payments overhaul boosts Austudy, Youth Allowance processing: Tudge

  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.

• IBM, HP Enterprise to join welfare payment overhaul

  The Department of Human Services has revealed that IBM and HP Enterprise will join the overhaul of the government’s welfare payment infrastructure.

• Government taps SAP for welfare payment system overhaul

  The federal government has identified SAP as the preferred core software vendor for its mammoth Welfare Payment Infrastructure Transformation (WPIT) program.