Dear Grant

There is a false narrative out there concerning the Social Security program. Here’s an email explaining how it works:
“Social Security runs on COBOL (a computer programming language designed for use in commerce), which does not use a date or time type. So, the date is stored as a number using the ISO 8601 standard. The epoch for this is 150 years ago (1875) – aka the metre standard.
So if you don’t know the date of something, it will be a 0 value, which in COBOL will default to 1875 – 150 years ago.”
This has been fact checked and verified by people far more knowledgeable than I.
So, it seems that these DOGE (Department of Government Efficency) guys don’t understand the system they have read/write access to, nor do they comprehend or care about the program itself.
I’m concerned.

_{Dawn Kortmeyer
Lake City}