Possibly, and possibly not paid at all, if we were running two systems.
Again, we're talking about a third of the public servants that aren't being paid correctly. You're absolutely right. However, it's a delay in the payment that they're expected to receive. They are receiving their base pay. What they're not receiving is their acting pay or their transfer from one government department to another. These were problems we experienced before Phoenix was implemented as well, with weeks and weeks of delay.
The system was designed to fix those weeks of delays, and I'm confident that we'll get there once we've cleared the backlog.