Subj : Re: Wake Up
To   : Anthony Bonante
From : IB Joe
Date : Thu Oct 09 2025 11:51:38

On 08 Oct 2025, Anthony Bonante said the following...

 AB> 
 AB> I happen to know at least five people who still work with COBOL as their
 AB> job, sadly for them.
 AB> 
 AB> The Social Security system uses it. Dates that are blank are
 AB> stored as May 20, 1875 (zero point), thus making some records show
 AB> people being 150 years old. It has to due with ISO:8601 standards.
 AB> 

Problem is simple... and I have No Clue how to read Cobol... If there are people older than the country itself... Check up on them... A reasonable step to assuring the proper use of a benefit.

There was waste, fraud and abuse to the Social Security System... No one needed to  know how to read Cobol... The problem was solved by removing offenders from the System and modernizing the System from Cobol to something more modern.

PolitiFact says....


An April 2024 government report said that there could be $233 billion to $521 billion in fraud annually across the federal government, not just mandatory programs including Social Security.

Government reports have suggested ways for the Social Security Administration to reduce fraud, and many have not been implemented.

The leading threat to Social Security's long-term viability is a shortage of workers feeding their tax dollars into the system, alongside a growing number of retirement-age Americans qualifying to receive benefits.


SS should be for the people its intended for and not those who scam it... and it could be argued that the Government needs to do whatever it can to prevent that system from fraud because they need to act accordingly wit the Taxpayers money.

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