Solving Phoenix will take years to resolve and more money than government estimates: AG

The Auditor General’s fall report on the Phoenix pay system, tabled Tuesday, says the cost of outstanding overpayments and underpayments is over $500-million.

In his latest report, Auditor General Michael Ferguson, pictured last year, concluded that Public Services and Procurement Canada took four months to recognize there were serious problems with the Phoenix pay system, and another year to understand them. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY EMILY HAWS

November 21, 2017

Public Services and Procurement Canada has failed to sustainably solve the Phoenix pay system issues and the solution will cost far more than $540-million the government currently plans to spend and years to properly resolve, according to the latest report from federal Auditor General Michael Fergus...

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