The White House believes Y2K Bureau of California’s number of programs financed by federal funds are not ready for the big computer sales to 1 January, but the officials, everything is good and ready to roll.
The federal government last year’s report on Y2K readiness, held this week that California, seven other states and the District of Columbia are always risks of disaster in your prosperity, health care federal and other programs of money.
The risk - as in computer systems and around the world - is that computers are read only the last two digits of the year, falsely years 2000 and 1900 and to a deadlock.
The greatest concern in California on computers, controls the child support, hardly a new problem, the system is in trouble since the mid 90. The federal government if necessary, upon all States to install new computers for the “Child Support systems and the installation was from headaches.
Still, state and local officials say that headaches in the long term is now under control, that the federal report is obsolete and should not worry about January 1 in California.
The same goes for the commitment of almost any other program in the state, in conjunction with federal funds, cash welfare and food stamp on Medi-Cal.
“ We have the control and coordination with all the counties of this system, their report the week, and we believe we are ready for Y2K,’’said Anita Gore, spokeswoman of the State Health and Human Services Agency, which manages the “Child Support Program, a euphemism for the State has never ended campaign to force payments or almost Deadbeat Dead Beat-fathers.
“ Moreover, even if it is a problem, we have a full manual emergency plan in every circle of countries.”
The feds are not so sure that the warnings issued this week and only a man for all problems between parentheses at the end of the month.
Some states have not fixed all their problems, some completed their computer refits only a few days and maybe some do not even know harass problems deeply into their software, said John Koskinen, the White House-Y2K coordinator.
“ Of course, some of them, he withdrew much too close,”he said. “ We are not interested receive 95 per cent of the work or after 45 to 50 countries in a good condition. We need each state in preparation.”
In addition to California, Koskinen find potential problems in Illinois, Alabama, Kentucky, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Washington, DC to other calls for federal funds financed by the programs, including the San Francisco County Social Services Agency and the State Department of Social Services - - The management of social security, life style and health care programmes - inexorably product assurance that their software Y2K is over.
“ It is absolutely not a problem,’’said Sidonie Squier State Social Services Department, spokesman. “ We are fully compatible, we tested was again examined and tested again, and work over this problem since last year.”
In San Francisco, updates on the system began three years ago, said Sally Kipper, Deputy Director of Administration at the Social Services Agency.