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Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Update on the Readiness of the Social Security Administration

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 24, 1999
Report No. T-AIMD-99-90
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Summary:

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has made significant early progress in becoming Year 2000 compliant. However, three areas of significant risk remain that could threaten the agency's ability to deliver benefit payments. First, SSA has not included the 54 state disability determination services, which provide vital support to SSA in administering its disability programs, in its initial assessment of systems that it considered a priority for correction. Second, SSA has thousands of data exchanges with other organizations, including the Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service, and the states. Unless SAA can ensure that the data received are Year 2000 compliant, program benefits and eligibility computations that are derived from that data may be compromised and SSA's databases corrupted. Third, the risks to SSA's Year 2000 program are compounded by the lack of contingency plans to ensure business continuity in the event of systems failure.

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