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But that doesn't mean Bisignano couldn't outsource the IT or other support services for SSA to his own company.prospect.org/health/2025-...
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/dog...-deposit-fraud$100 million in fraud represents about 0.00625% of the $1.6 trillion the government sends out each year in Social Security benefits.
Only around half of that $100 million was lost to phone fraud in 2024, according to a person familiar with Social Security fraud who attended a meeting last year where data on the issue was shared, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
But that doesn't mean Bisignano couldn't outsource the IT or other support services for SSA to his own company.prospect.org/health/2025-...
not a great track record
In 2022, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Rohit Chopra made remarks to community bankers in which he cited figures showing that core providers had only a 5 percent net satisfaction rating from community banks. “In a market where small financial ins utions need to compete head-to-head with big players, I am concerned that the core services providers that small players rely on have too much power in the system,” Chopra said.
Smaller lenders, who depend on core providers for their livelihoods, have complained about complex, expensive long-term contracts (some totaling large shares of a bank’s annual profits) and substandard services that Fiserv and its compe ors offer. Fees are apparently charged for implementation and upgrades, as well as for early termination of contracts. And multiple lawsuits allege that renewals for core provider services were coerced. “Executives at some small banks say they feel like they are becoming franchises of the core providers because they are so reliant on their technology,” the Journal reported in 2019.
is this weaponization?
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/...cked-at-mills/The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admitted this week that he specifically targeted Maine after watching Gov. Janet Mills clash with President Donald Trump during an event at the White House.
“I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” Lee Dudek told the New York Times.
Dudek directed the agency to cancel a decades-old program that allows parents to register their newborns for a social security number while at hospitals.
The mandate only applied to Maine and required new parents to show up at a Social Security office in person to register their newborns.
RIP Article I of the US Cons ution
NEW: Top Republicans say they're out of the loop as DOGE downsizes Social Security Administration
CHUCK GRASSLEY, chair of the Senate subcommittee on Social Security, wasn’t consulted on office closures and staffing cuts:
“I have not been.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Medicaid cuts will drive millions of people out of their own homes
Medicaid is ~60% of home health care funding
https://workdaymagazine.org/what-med...ecare-workers/Republicans in Congress are looking to cut massive funds from the federal budgets to pay for President Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy, and these cuts are widely expected to come out of Medicaid funding. The GOP’s budget legislation in the House, adopted in late February, says the House Energy and Commerce Committee must find $880 billion in cuts over the next 10 years. Elon Musk, the unelected head of the Department of Government Efficiency, claims that “en lement programs,” like Medicaid and Medicare, could be cut up to $600-700 billion, alleging fraud and improper payments. In 2023, Medicaid spending totaled around $890 billion from the federal government, and any reductions would be a huge blow to those who benefit, given that federal dollars account for nearly 70% of the programs’ funding, with the rest funded by states.
Republicans appear to be trying to drive through cuts even though Medicaid is popular among members of the public. A recent KFF Health Tracking Poll found that fewer than one in five adults wants Medicaid funding to be reduced.
Murphy and other disabled, Medicaid recipients worry that these cuts will take the form of disqualifying them from receiving coverage or cutting down the amount of home healthcare hours they are allotted in order to live, forcing them into nursing care facilities or impacting their ability to live independently in their own homes.
El0n already ed it up
This is old news from COVID days when they closed the SS offices and went to phone only.El0n already ed it up
I think we should just cut all SS/Medicare/Medicaid for a certain 77.3 million people.
I think you didn't make President and should sit quiet.
Unfortunately you live in a country where people are still used to speaking their minds, the president ain't tbh. Other people are doing everything for him this time.
Co-president El0n
Co-president Miller
Co-president Susie Wiles
"But I'm President...and their not."
*TILT*
DOGE could wreck Social Security for good if they do this
but maybe that's the point
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-reb...obol-benefits/The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
the stove is made of thermite, tbh
Co-president Rubio
Co-president Vought
Co-president Bondi
Every officer is just an extension of the leader, who is the living embodiment of the law
Everything Trump says is law, and everything Trump's officers do under his command is law too
That was during COVID-19 you silly SOB, you.
You bet your Aunt Edna's sweet ass, Winester.
By planned design, my friend. This was nary accident, and you know it. There ain't a Bolton, McMasters, Kelly, et al in the entire Cabinet/staff. Not 1 in' plant, nor false flag, nor duplicitous character. A GD genuine miracle. I should have applied. Can you imagine it...me in there somewhere...janitor, male muse, sandwich maker, personal gopher to the nearest McDonald's, keeper of the flame, chief wisenheimer, prompter about that PA. hit, hit list updater.
Manoshevitz.
By God & Sonny Jesus that old man learned his lessons and took 'em to heart. Yep, ya's gonna have to stand down again to get him to stop.
https://fortune.com/2025/03/29/socia...-paper-checks/Social Security employee warns ‘people could be out of benefits for months’ as staffers who fix payment glitches exit
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Those with top software skills are leaving the Social Security Administration to get high-paying jobs in the private sector, he added.
As a result, several software updates and modernization processes that were supposed to be completed soon will likely miss their deadlines, and many of the experts who fix glitches that can stop payments are now exiting, the report said.
“That has to get cleaned up on a case-by-case basis, and the experts in how to do that are leaving,” the Baltimore employee told the Post. “We will have cases that get stuck, and they’re not going to be able to get fixed. People could be out of benefits for months.”
Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley previously warned of a “system collapse” that could halt payments, saying changes that the Department of Government Efficiency is making to the agency have already caused IT system outages.
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.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration also plans to phase out payments via paper checks, but that will affect nearly half a million Social Security recipients.
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They haven't permitted "paper checks" for almost a decade Little v.
El0n is wrecking the good ...he is gonna kill somebody's granny and gramps in addition to making everyone poorer and sicker
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/hhs-rfk-layoffs-cuts-acl-health/The press release from HHS also announced the dismantling of the Administration for Community Living, which oversees vital programs and services for disabled and aging people. It includes independent living centersand protection and advocacy agencies, which were established by Congress and perform important tasks such as investigating claims of abuse in group homes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; in 2022, ACL also unveiled a National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. In a LinkedIn post, former ACL acting administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging Alison Barkoff said that ACL “has been incredibl[y] effective, with lean staffing and programs with incredible returns on investments.” Its dismantling, Barkoff wrote, was “yet another” move that hurt disabled and older adults, in addition to ongoing attacks on Medicaid
great article on COBOL and why is foolish for El0n to try to replace it quickly
https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/m...ols-your-moneyThe other thing about COBOL is that it was fast. It had been designed specifically to do mammoth amounts of “transactions” really quickly. If you’re a retail chain, you need to count up your sales and recalculate your inventory every night. And you don’t have much time to do it — perhaps a couple of hours in the evening, after your business day ends, while your computer staff works late.
Banks, too: During the day, they’re frantically accepting transactions, requests from customers to take money in and out of their accounts. At night they have a few hours to balance all those books. If you’ve wondered why a check you’ve deposited won’t clear for a while, it’s partly because both banks need to run their mammoth COBOL jobs after the day staff has left. At Citibank, Teplitzky’s code ran through a huge center with 248 mainframe computers.
“You have a six-, eight- hour window where you have to do, if you’ll pardon the expression, a load of work — you have to do all transactions in a certain order,” he tells me. “It takes big, big iron to run a billion transactions through a six-hour batch window. It’s a screamer.”
COBOL was optimized for precisely that task: processing gazillions of transactions. Computer languages often have a sort of cognitive or creative bias; they were each created with a particular type of task in mind. Python is excellent for data science and AI; Fortran was created to render math formulas in code; JavaScript was created to help programmers make websites interactive.
COBOL? It was customized for working on those mainframe computers, which themselves were designed specifically to crunch bazillions of transactions, reading and writing data streams at a brisk pace. It was like a high-octane fuel designed specifically for a sports car. Over the years, COBOL “compilers” — the software that takes the English-like syntax of computer code and transforms it into the ones and zeros that a computer chip can execute — were refined more and more, so that COBOL’s “compiled code” became exceptionally speedy. Which means that part of the reason COBOL underlies so many crucial things we do is because it’s actually pretty good at it.
“They’ve had 50 years to get this right,” notes Bill Hinshaw, who runs COBOL Cowboys, an agency that provides COBOL programmers.
The sheer age of those COBOL systems is, oddly, actually something that works in their favour. Because they’re old, they have been relentlessly debugged. When a program is first written, it inevitably has problems. Sometimes it’s a typo, a misplaced command; other times, the user does something the programmer never expected, and things crash. When you get a new app, if it’s buggy and crash-prone, this is why: the creators sent it out into the world with lots of these little flaws. It can take days, weeks, or years to discover all the problems.
But those COBOL programs that run the world? They’ve had decades for coders and users to uncover all the problems, and to fix them.
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