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<p><font face="Calibri">Considering the recent backtracking and
re-hiring of some of the more important fired personnel at
critical federal agencies, the slap-dash eager beavers running
around DOGE without a leash feel like drunk moshers in china
shop. Any conversion by these people will be a fiasco, because
they intrinsically don't care.<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">Log in to the SSA portal and download your
payments and benefits report before it's offline.<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">Mik<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Mik Muller, president
Montague WebWorks
20 River Street, Greenfield, MA
413-320-5336
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://MontagueWebWorks.com">http://MontagueWebWorks.com</a>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/29/2025 1:12 AM, AI Zuckerman via
Hidden-discuss wrote:<br>
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Hidden Techies,</span><span
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one for coders on the list. A friend sent me a link to this
article in Wired. Apparently, DOGE techies are claiming they
can rewrite the SSA code in months. Wire reports that the SSA
codebase has <a
href="https://oig.ssa.gov/congressional-testimony/2016-07-14-newsroom-congressional-testimony-july14-ssa-modernization/"
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moz-do-not-send="true">over 60 million lines of COBOL</a> and
handles record keeping for all American workers and payments
for all Social Security recipients. </span><span
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The
aim is to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL ... and onto a
more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight
timeframe of a few months," notes Wired.</span><span
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Some
questions:</span><span
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it possible to handle this mammoth job in a month?</span><span
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What happens
if the techies in DOGE make mistakes?</span><span
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Would
SSA have a backup system of the COBOL code?</span><span
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span><span
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Let
all of us oldsters who depend on our SSA benefits keep them
safe. If any people can do this, I know either you can or know
someone who can. Please post your thoughts to the list.</span><span
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If
you want to chat with me about this situation then call me at
413-362-4392. </span><span
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Zuckerman</span><span
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TECH mother emeritus</span><span
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