ACS Innovation Helps Michigan Implement First-of-Its-Kind Online System for Women, Infants, and Children Benefits.DALLAS -- Affiliated Computer Services Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) (NYSE: ACS) is a Fortune 500 company that provides information technology outsourcing as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. ) today announced it has implemented the first real-time, online system to provide electronic benefits transfers (EBT EBT See: Earnings Before Taxes ) for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC WIC - WAN Interface Card ) benefits in the state of Michigan. WIC provides nutritious foods and nutrition education for approximately one out of every two infants born in Michigan. Participating families now can make WIC purchases with an EBT card, offering improved convenience, flexibility and security over traditional WIC paper coupons. Nearly 2,000 vendors statewide equipped to accept the card also will benefit from increased efficiency and reduced errors. An ACS customer care center located in Michigan provides 24/7 support in three languages (English, Spanish and Arabic) for vendors and participants. ACS was awarded a five-year competitively bid contract in 2005 to work with the state of Michigan for the design and full implementation of the first-of-its-kind system, which has been successfully operating in a pilot phase in Jackson County Jackson County is the name of 23 counties and one parish in the United States:
The state also benefits by taking advantage of an ACS EBT solution for the delivery of food stamp and cash benefits. "This is a great example of ACS innovation and our ability to work closely with state agencies to understand their unique needs," said Joe Doherty, executive vice president and group president of ACS Government Solutions. "We're proud to be a partner with a state that has proven itself ahead of the curve in finding creative and effective ways to help its citizens." As the largest provider of business process solutions and one of the largest IT service providers to the nation's public sector, ACS serves as an operational partner to more than 1,700 government agencies on the federal, state, county and local level. The work of ACS touches millions of people every day. ACS processes more than half of the nation's child support payments; manages 20 electronic payment card programs for state and federal clients, disbursing government payments and benefits; processes nearly 375 million Medicaid claims each year totaling more than $39 billion in payments; services student loans for more than 10 million borrowers; and facilitates more than 75 million online searches for unclaimed property per year. About ACS ACS, a global FORTUNE 500 company with approximately 70,000 people supporting client operations reaching more than 100 countries, provides business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in and information technology solutions to world-class commercial and government clients. The company's Class A common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol "ACS." Learn more by visiting www.acs-inc.com. |
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