Cost of Federal IT Project Explodes to up to $6.6 Billion

Cost of Federal IT Project Explodes to up to $6.6 Billion
Information regarding CPP is displayed on the Service Canada website in Ottawa on Jan. 31, 2012. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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The federal government says it could end up spending up to $6.6 billion to update the systems it uses to deliver benefits to Canadians—more than three times what was budgeted at the project’s launch.

The initiative involves migrating Old Age Security, the Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance benefit programs to a cloud-based platform.