‘We inherited the mess, but we’re committed to fixing it,’ hundreds of thousands of cheques still affected by Phoenix pay problems

PSPC says there were 265,000 payments in the queue for correction early last month.

Liberal MP Steven MacKinnon, parliamentary secretary to the Public Services minister, says of Phoenix, 'We inherited this mess, but we are committed to fixing it.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY DEREK ABMA

July 17, 2017

Pay problems for federal public servants caused by the problematic Phoenix system are still ongoing, with little reduction in the backlog of error-ridden paycheques in recent months. Public Services and Procurement Canada has stopped updating an online dashboard that broke out various statistics on...

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