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Wired reports that one of DOGE’s many government initiatives is an attempt to rewrite the Social Security Administration codebase in a more modern programming language in just a few months. A proposed migration in 2017 predicted that modernizing properly would take around five years.
“Of course, one of the big risks is not underpayment or overpayment per se; [it’s also] not paying someone at all and not knowing about it. The invisible errors and omissions,” an SSA technologist tells WIRED.
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