Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely ...

The Department of Government Efficiency will be allowed only limited access to Social Security data after a federal court ...

Replacing the SSA’s core infrastructure with an entirely new system all at once is performing a high-wire act without a net, only it’s not DOGE staffers who risk falling — it’s the Social ...

A federal judge has imposed new restrictions on the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to Social Security systems ...

A Washington Post report suggests DOGE’s introduction of a fraud checking service is to blame for the site often going dark, ...

In order to migrate all COBOL code ... “DOGE thinks if they can say they got rid of all the COBOL in months then their way is the right way and we all just suck for not breaking shit,” says ...

Elon [Roman Salute] Musk is trying to modernise America’s Social Security Administration ... dead code, or logic designed around 40-year-old hardware quirks. DOGE will spend years just trying ...

DOGE has outlined a proposal to replace the core programming of the SSA, which has been running on COBOL—a language created in the late 1950s. According to WIRED, DOGE's team is pushing to ...

The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE ... Social Security Administration uses to make payments. Wired today cited sources as saying the initiative will focus on switching code ...

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together ... Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language ...

"The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest ...