DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Makena Kelly
created: March 28, 2025, 2:07 p.m. | updated: April 1, 2025, 5:40 a.m.
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.
2 months, 2 weeks ago: WIRED