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DEW outlines timeline for benefit system modernization, says contract is fixed-price
Summary
Stanton told the committee the modernized unemployment-insurance benefit system — a multi-state collaboration with North Carolina and Georgia — is scheduled to go live this summer; the department described the development as a fixed‑price, back‑ended contract and said the tax system upgrade will follow.
Cheryl Stanton briefed lawmakers on two linked IT projects: a multi-state modernized benefit system and a follow-on tax system. She said South Carolina will deploy the benefit system this summer and then roll it out to partner states; the contract structure is fixed-price with payments tied to delivered working product, so DEW has not requested additional general funds to complete the work.
Stanton said collaboration with North Carolina and Georgia produced scheduling and cost advantages and that the department will run vendor demonstrations and a multi-agency scoring panel before any procurement for the job-matching or tax products. Members asked about funding and project risk; Stanton said the department has paid roughly 26% of a contract's cost so far because payment is staged against delivered work, and reiterated that the tax system will be funded from surplus property sales proceeds where possible.
