State sets Oct. 12 target to move CCRS to y.gov; integrators and licensees urged to test accounts

Kristen Boyston, the project manager for the WADAC/ y.gov effort, briefed the caucus on the CCRS transition and laid out the near‑term schedule and outreach steps. She said the CCRS cutover is targeted for Oct. 12 and that preproduction testing has been open since Aug. 25; staff have sent communications to integrators and roughly 30,000 CCRS recipients to encourage test logins and uploads.

Boyston explained integrators are third‑party developers (about 12–13) that many licensees use to do bulk CCRS uploads and that the project built machine‑to‑machine client capabilities to support those system‑to‑system authentications. “Our cutover date is targeted for October 12,” she said. She added that the team is tracking test activity in preproduction and will be able to run queries against production logins after the cutover; users must create new y.gov accounts because there is no automatic migration from the current SAW system.

Board members asked whether the transition would prioritize large state agencies and whether a public schedule exists. Boyston replied that WADAC maintains a schedule that is not yet public and that the new y.gov portal will list services after they move. She also noted SAW (the existing account system) will remain active through the end of 2027, but that individual applications will undergo a hard cut when they migrate.

Why it matters: Licensees and integrators must take action now—create y.gov accounts and test uploads—to avoid service disruption when CCRS moves to the new authentication platform.