In April 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. unemployment reached 14.8 percent, the highest rate since data collection began, making evident the limitations of unemployment systems ...

If you're taking classes using your GI Bill benefit and run into academic trouble, the Department of Veterans Affairs may pay for the cost of hiring a tutor to help with difficult courses. It can help ...

Elon Musk has turned his attention to the Social Security Administration, the latest agency that his team of novice programmers has invaded for the apparent purpose of hobbling it. Wired magazine ...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to migrate the Social Security Administration’s computer systems from the COBOL programming language to something more modern, ...

(NEXSTAR) – In an apparent example of government waste, Trump drew laughs during his congressional address Tuesday when he alleged that the Social Security Administration (SSA) had millions of ...

Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...

People who are listed as over 100 years old in the Social Security system are "not necessarily receiving benefits," the new head of the agency said Wednesday, contradicting claims that tens of ...

Discussions of Social Security Administration (SSA) fraud from Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics consider outdated. Musk ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...