States With Y2K Problems

Updated 5:33 PM ET December 16, 1999

By The Associated Press

States not certified as Y2K compliant in the Office of Management and Budget's final readiness report.

Programs examined were food stamps; child nutrition, including school breakfast and lunch programs; Women, Infants and Children (WIC); Medicaid; Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), or cash welfare; child support; Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program; child care; child welfare and unemployment insurance.

-Alabama: TANF, child support, child care.

-California: Child support.

-Connecticut: Child welfare.

-District of Columbia: Unemployment.

-Illinois: Child support.

-Kentucky: Child care.

-Minnesota: Child welfare.

-North Dakota: Child support.

-Oklahoma: Food stamps, WIC.

U.S. Territories:

-American Samoa: Medicaid, including both systems that pay bills and determine eligibility; child care.

-Guam: Food stamps, WIC, both Medicaid systems, TANF, child support, child care, child welfare.

-Puerto Rico: Medicaid, bill paying

-Virgin Islands: Both Medicaid systems, TANF, child support, child care.

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Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), December 16, 1999

Answers

Although Hawai'i isn't listed (indicating it is doing OK in at least these areas), both American Samoa and Guam are doing poorly. Not good for our friends in those areas. And if those key systems will fail, how about the others?

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), December 16, 1999.

Well bust my buttons.

North Carolina made the cut? Three months ago today, Hurricane Floyd passed through here, and a day or two later in the eastern third of the state we were up to our ears in flood water and gosh knows what else; All-Knowing Ed Himself questioned on this here forum how the flooding would impact Y2k remediation efforts in our fair state.

Evidently we made it OK. And if we did, in spite of all that's happened; I have just an inkling that the rest of these states listed here will be OK as well.

-- Chicken Little (panic@forthebirds.net), December 16, 1999.