$240M cost over 4 years thats $60M/year assume that all went to cover cost of programmers or equiv profs lets say fully loaded annual cost of said staff indi

$240M cost over 4 years thats $60M/year assume that all went to cover cost of programmers or equiv profs lets say fully loaded annual cost of said staff indiv is $150K each $60M gets you 400 of those $150K programmers FT for a year now do that for 4 years for something that is essentially just a database-backed CRUD webapp with simple workflow and the hardest bits actually done by a pre-existing separate service anyway (messaging to banks to issue the DD; printing checks and envelopes then handing off to PO for delivery); and could have been orders-of-magnitude simpler (and cheaper overhead) if all replaced with a totally automated Basic Universal Income payout to every citizen gov software: massively lucrative if weren't so massively inane