ACS Helps Governments Prepare, Respond and Recover During Hurricane Season

With the 2009 hurricane season underway, more government agencies are turning to Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) for services to help prepare for and respond to a disaster by reducing its impact, maintaining essential services and caring for citizens.

ACS solutions are tailored and scalable to help governments quickly assist citizens. Our work, proven through the country�s most demanding recent disasters, includes:

For a second hurricane season, ACS is a partner to the United States Department of�Health and Human Services by providing critical support and cost-saving innovation for the Emergency Prescription Assistance Program (EPAP). During a declared disaster, EPAP enables pharmacies to fill prescriptions and provide qualifying medical equipment at negotiated market rates for those without health insurance living in, or evacuated from, disaster areas. During the 2008 hurricane season, the program filled more than 30,000 prescriptions for affected residents.
ACS is aiding state governments in disaster recovery by providing grant management services for residents rebuilding from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In Louisiana, ACS was recently awarded a contract to administer eligibility and grant determination as well as oversee construction for the Small Rental Property Program, which provides federal funding for property owners to repair their storm-damaged rental properties. In Texas, ACS is administering a first-of-its-kind hurricane recovery program for the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs in which the state takes on the full responsibilities of home rebuilding and repair from outreach and eligibility determination to certificate of occupancy on the newly constructed or repaired home.
ACS will provide critical services in Louisiana, where the state Department of Social Services (DSS) has awarded ACS a contract, extending through hurricane season, to support the Disaster Food Stamp program by establishing a customer service center to respond to questions from citizens. ACS has a history of helping DSS in the wake of a disaster. After Hurricane Katrina, ACS worked with the DSS to help ensure that parents received timely child support payments.

ACS� disaster relief portfolio for governments also includes:

disaster readiness assessment;
evacuation, citizen tracking, and citizen transportation planning and implementation;
shelter planning and management;
electronic payment cards for benefits such as food stamps, child support, payroll or emergency aid;
�always-on� infrastructure and IT support;
outbound messaging services;
single point of entry for program eligibility.

�ACS is well-positioned to help in times of emergency because our solutions can be quickly implemented and can adapt to rapidly changing needs,� said Joseph Doherty, executive vice president and group president of ACS Government Solutions Group. �Our experiences in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Ike and Gustav have demonstrated that ACS is an operations partner to government agencies ready to help in tough times.�

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 24 electronic payment card programs for state and federal clients, disbursing government payments and benefits; processes nearly 570 million Medicaid claims each year totaling more than $50 billion in provider payments; saves state child care programs millions of dollars; 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 74,000 people supporting client operations reaching more than 100 countries, provides business process 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 under the symbol "ACS.� Learn more about ACS at www.acs-inc.com.

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