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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Ind. Gov't. - "Hoosier welfare winners and losers"
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has a strong editorial today about the state's welfare privatization contract. The long column concludes:
USDA, which pays about half the state’s costs for administering the food stamp program, questioned the FSSA thoroughly before giving the go-ahead for the privatization deal in 2007, with Indiana officials assuring the feds that they had a contingency plan if things went awry.The contingency plan, it now appears, was simply to pay more to IBM and ACS. The original contract of $1.16 billion has grown by 15 percent since it was signed in late 2006. IBM has been awarded an extra $47.3 million – some of it to fix the very problems created by its takeover of vital state services. The growing cost is one reason for federal and state lawmakers to remain vigilant; the continuing disservice to Hoosiers who depend on welfare services is an even better reason.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 1, 2009 09:42 AM
Posted to Indiana Government