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

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) embarks on an ambitious plan to overhaul the Social Security Administration's ...

The Social Security Administration is facing a potential overhaul of its computer systems, one that could disrupt the ...

The chaotic process that brought the bill to fruition, and the failure of Congress to sufficiently fund the administrative ...

Elon Musk’s DOGE reforms promise efficiency at the Social Security Administration, but will they increase benefits? Here's ...

There is no “one neat trick” that will make a complete overhaul possible in the span of a few months. Hard things are hard. DOGE’s effort is likely to fail and threatens to bring down Social Security ...

Yes, Social Security Administration systems that rely on COBOL need to be updated. No, Elon, it can't be done quickly.

When President Trump took office, one of the first things he did was greenlight his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And now, many people may be worried that DOGE will come in and mess with ...

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

DOGE and its team members at the agency to delete all non-anonymized personal information that they obtained from the SSA, and prevents them from accessing any agency computer or software 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 ...