Social Security tried to assign fake death dates to 2.7M people: Whistleblower

[AverageOldGuy]

9. 150-yr-old Social Security recipients

Some of you tech weenies can chime in and show my error, but, this is what I heard.

The SS computer system has been around for a while and is programmed in an old computer language, COBOL -- Common Business Oriented Language.

There is a record for everyone -- all the usual stuff -- names, address, date of birth, etc., etc.

If the date of birth (DOB) is not available, COBOL assigns a place holder -- a date that is 150 years in the past. So -- if your DOB is missing, you will appear to be 150 years old -- until SS can get your DOB and fill in the blank.

Elon Muskrat's whiz kids are too damn young to remember COBOL, so, they saw some number of SS recipients who are 150 years old. If you think about it, that was one of DOGE's first announcements -- they had found a few thousand people illegally receiving SS annuity who were 150 years old so they must be dead.

Then, a SS programmer slapped them upside the head and told them they didn't know WTF they were talking about thereby causing the "150-yr-old scammers" to disappear from the conversation.