DOGE Plans Modern Social Security Migration

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DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just 'a Few Months': Report

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Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ) is planning to migrate the Social Security Administration’s computer systems from the COBOL programming language to something more modern.

Everything from the code that issues Social Security numbers to the payment schedules are written in the 1950s , but the DOGE team seems to believe it can make a snap transition with the help of artificial intelligence.

More than 65 million Americans receive Social Security benefits, and any hiccups would be devastating for people who rely on the program.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a Fox News interview that people getting Social Security would get more money after he was done rooting around in the systems.

Musk even said he wanted people to “check back” on his claim in the future.

IT expert Waldo Jaquith , who used to work for the U.S. government’s 18F department, called it “profoundly stupid and will definitely fail”.

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