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comments, ephemera, speculation, etc. (protected political speech and personal opinion) 2020- 2020-04-09 f Viral News - Your Government at Work: Example # 5,678,910 Obsolete 1950s
computer code is causing unemployment chaos amid
huge lines: Appeal for retired programmers who know
obscure COBOL language to fix outdated computer
system in states across US
•Governors have put out pleas for retired programmers to help code their decades-old computer programming as unemployment applications surged •Officials in New Jersey, Kansas, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Mississippi and Oklahoma struggling to process the large volume of unemployment claims •States complained of problems with 40-year-old system made up of a COBOL mainframe computer language used to process applications •State officials have known for years about glitches that short-changed unemployment recipients but failed to fix them, a review found last year States have appealed for help reprogramming their outdated computer systems that are used to process surging unemployment applications as a record 16.8 million Americans claim benefits amid the coronavirus lockdown. A record 6.6 million new claims for unemployment benefits were filed last week, according to the latest Labor Department figures released on Thursday. It comes on top of than 10 million applications filed in the last two weeks of March. Many local government computer programs use an obsolete code from the 1950s at a time when the social security process has been thrown into chaos with rising numbers of workers forced out of work due to coronavirus. Officials in New Jersey, Kansas, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Mississippi and Oklahoma have all admitted struggling to proceeds growing applications. Governors have put out pleas for retired programmers to help code the decades-old computer programming language called COBOL because many of the state's systems still run on old mainframes. It comes as huge lines of people were seen yesterday queuing close together in order to make unemployment applications. ______________________ Permission is hereby granted to any and all to copy and paste any entry on this page and convey it electronically along with its URL, ______________________ |
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