Part of the confusion comes from Social Security’s software system based on the COBOL programming language, which doesn’t use a specific format for dates.

A mainframe hosts those systems, which were built in part with the COBOL programming language, according to Jimmy Cox, Florida PALM project director. The stakes are pretty high.

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On Friday, Wired reported that DOGE is forming a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s computer systems off the archaic COBOL programming language in a matter of months.

Part of the confusion comes from Social Security’s software system based on the COBOL programming language, which doesn’t use a specific format for dates.