DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong?

DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong?

Computerworld

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) payment system has more than 60 million lines of COBOL code. That makes it one of the world’s largest, not to mention oldest, codebases. Everyone agrees it needs to be updated. But, sorry, there’s no way it can be updated in mere months.

Nevertheless, Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) claim they can 

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