DOGE effort to rewrite Social Security code could have catastrophic consequences

[struggle4progress]

[William769]

1. Just another way to screw the little guy.

[ImNotGod]

2. its been suggested by a few advocates that you go online while you still can and make a copy of your work history,

contributions before that disappears. Can't remember but it may be downloadable?

[Skittles]

5. the format they have it in, it's easy to cut and paste or just plain copy

well, for NOW it is

[33taw]

6. You can download PDFs of benefit verification letters, contribution history, and beneficiary information.

Get anything you can.

[B.See]

3. That's because in backwards azz Bizarro MAGA-ese, "efficiency" means

ABSOLUTE CHAOS.

[MontanaMama]

4. Allowed behavior.

I keep hearing that this isn’t legal and it goes on every damned day.

[LittleGirl]

7. Every IT admin hears that Elon thinks they can do it

in 3 months laughs out loud and says he’s out of his f*kg mind. You can’t do that.

It will take at least 2 years to replace the current setup. You can’t just deploy a software update and expect it to work or be secure. Stupid thinking.

[notinkansas]

10. What they are going to do is BREAK IT.

Possibly intentionally.

[Tickle]

11. Of course they are

Then they can rebuild it, their way. Musk will create multiple backdoors and then, I don't know....

[C Moon]

8. You know this ahole will still be heavily involved with DOGE.

Just doesn't want his face /name associated anymore.

[GoodRaisin]

9. Seems like the purpose of these endless media reports about SS is to scare old people

that their money is going to be cut off. I didn’t hear anything new in that CBS report that hasn’t already been said over and over in the media the last few weeks.

[Tickle]

12. I've done my best on this board

to try and get others not to worry about their SS check. My first real job in the early 80s when 401ks were introduced to me: SS was something I was told was not going to be around for my generation. From 1980 and on that's all I heard.
Here I am 67 and collecting a decent SS check.

[modrepub]

13. AI Set Trump's Tariffs

So why not let AI redo the SS programs? What could possibly go wrong?

[New Breed Leader]

14. that's the point

break it so they can replace it.