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of Government Efficiency (DOGE) embarks on an ambitious plan to overhaul the Social Security Administration's (SSA) outdated COBOL systems. Experts warn that the accelerated timeline ...

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency wants to combine your Social Security number into a massive ...

Democrats are pressing the acting inspector general for Social Security for answers about how changes to the agency’s ...

Everything from the code that issues Social Security numbers to the payment schedules are written in COBOL, which was created in the 1950s, but the DOGE team seems to believe it can make a snap ...

An Obama-appointed judge in Baltimore issued a preliminary injunction Thursday restricting the Department of Government ...

Elon Musk has turned his attention to the Social Security Administration ... will make a complete overhaul possible in the span of a few months. Hard things are hard. DOGE’s effort is likely ...

The Social Security Administration is facing a potential overhaul of its computer systems ... the financial well-being of millions of people. DOGE has outlined a proposal to replace the core ...

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 ...

in an Thursday letter to the Social Security Administration’s assistant inspector general for audit. The letter, first reported by Axios, calls for an investigation into DOGE’s information ...