DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to

Politics@beehaw.org · 11 days ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

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