Computer upgrades lag as 2000 nears
'Thursday May 7 4:01 PM EDT
Computer upgrades lag as 2000 nears
By JENNIFER BROOKS
WASHINGTON, May 7 (UPI) _ When the year 2000 rolls around, senior citizens, hospital patients and taxpayers
could all feel the bite of the millenium bug.
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Unfortunately, the Treasury Department, which is responsible for issuing those checks, and most other government
checks, is expected to have just 60 percent of its most critical sytems upgraded in time.
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A recent General Accounting Office audit sharply criticized the Health Care Financing System, which administers
the Medicare and Medicaid programs, for barely beginning to draw up a plan to deal with the year 2000 problem,
leaving just a year and a half to overhaul a system responsible for paying $288 billion in benefits.
Federal agencies must deal not only with their own computer problems, but anticipate disruptions in computers they
are linked to _ local and foreign governments, banks, businesses, hospitals and even home computers.
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