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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase 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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By rebuild I don’t think they mean it’s going to function the same. …just torn apart and replaced.
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  It has to function the same. It has to follow the same laws as before.
  
  Bur more likely, they know this and it’s all part of privatizing social security.

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