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Saxony’s Finance IT Rollout Triggers Payment Turmoil as State Asserts Recovery

The new central accounting system under the HKR 2025 program with T‑Systems is blamed for months of misrouted or untracked payments.

Overview

  • The finance authority says most faults are resolved, a competence team is handling isolated cases, and the state’s ability to pay was never impaired.
  • Officials now put foreign‑transfer errors at 10 of 300 transactions with incorrect currencies, and recipients are being contacted to correct them.
  • The authority says universities stabilized enrollment processes, but staff report continuing reconciliation gaps and earlier pay delays for non‑civil‑servant employees and student assistants.
  • Investigations describe a temporary halt of dunning at the central fines office and payment processing problems at agencies including the SLUB and the archaeology office.
  • The years‑long migration under HKR 2025 with T‑Systems may involve up to about 40,000 students and several million euros, with the overall financial impact still unclear.