福利事業 IT system costing millions: Abbott
Junking Centrelink's 古風な computer system could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, 総理大臣 Tony Abbott says.
Centrelink's 1980s 時代 IT system is 始める，決める to be scrapped at a cost of $1 billion because of 関心s it won't 対処する with a planned 精密検査する of the 福利事業 system.
Asked if the 政府 could afford to 取って代わる it at a time of 予算 抑制, the 首相 asked: "Can we afford not to have an efficient Centrelink system?"
"The 古風な system ... is costing us tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in 付加 costs because data has to be re-entered manually time and time again," he told reporters in Perth.
"We need to have a proper computer system which is 有能な of 確実にするing that people get paid in a timely way ... and that all of the 行政 is as efficient as it かもしれない can be."
Social Services 大臣 Scott Morrison said when the system was introduced 30 years ago about two-and-a-half million people received 支払い（額）s.
Now there are about 10 million 福利事業 受取人s, with $400 million spent on 50 million 処理／取引s every day.
"This is a system that still has 手動式の 過程ing 大（公）使館員d to it, and it's been left to 基本的に wither for many years," he told Sky News.
Labor 支援するd the 押し進める to 取って代わる the Centrelink computer system.
"The 事例／患者 ... has been pretty 堅固に made that this system is groaning under the 負わせる of what's 存在 需要・要求するd of it," 影をつくる／尾行する assistant treasurer Andrew Leigh told Sky News.
