fun fact: the Obama admin looked into cleaning up those records and concluded that it was too expensive and risked breaching privacy of living recipients, this is all a matter of public record and something literally anyone could have looked up at any point.
Comments
Note that the modernization process has been a challenge dating back to the Reagan era, when COBOL was still common, and I’m guessing the reports only go back that far.
https://www.gao.gov/reports-testimonies?f%5B0%5D=by_agency_name%3ASocial%20Security%20Administration&f%5B1%5D=topic%3A236&processed=1