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Kansas Department for Children and Families reports delays on child-support system replatform; IBM engagement under way
Summary
The Department for Children and Families told lawmakers that its child-support replatforming—intended to end reliance on a mainframe—has been delayed and modestly over budget after an unplanned federal de‑identification mandate and unresolved batch-processing problems.
Department of Children and Families CIO Tom Pagano updated the Joint Committee on Information Technology on the Child Support Services (CSS) replatform project, which moves the legacy mainframe child-support application to a modern server-based platform.
Pagano said the project began as an effort to mitigate mainframe risk and improve interfaces; the initial plan estimated 28 months and a budget…
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