Kida's formula and congruences.
We illustrate how a particular expression, involving the generalized Bernoulli polynomials, satisfies systems of congruence relations if and only if a similar expression, involving the generalized Bernoulli numbers, satisfies the same congruence relations. These congruence relations include the Kummer congruences, and recent extensions of the Kummer congruences provided by Gunaratne.