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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RagTimeBand who wrote (3071)	12/28/1998 11:05:00 PM
From: Investor-ex!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Hi Emory, The state compliance issue has to do with disabilitant information only and doesn't really affect the average retiree. Still, these apparent facts were made public about a year ago, yet no mention in today's SSA complete compliance story. A Pothole in the Road to 2000 SSA did an incomplete initial assessment of the work needed to ensure its systems would continue to operate after the turn of the century, GAO reported. Although SSA did a good job of evaluating the work needed on its own systems, it overlooked Disability Determination Services (DDS) systems operated by the 50 states. The states determine whether an applicant is eligible for disability benefits, then upload the client data to SSA's computers. More than 33 million lines of software code are at work in those state computers. If the states do not get their systems fixed in time, "SSA could face major disruptions in its ability to process initial disability claims for millions of individuals throughout the county," GAO said in its report, "Social Security Administration: Significant Progress Made in Year 2000 Efforts, But Key Risks Remain." governmentexecutive.com Tick, Tick, Tick The Social Security Administration is widely regarded as the leading federal agency with respect to coping with year 2000 problems, and yet last year SSA found it had overlooked a set of interfaces with 54 state government systems. Unless the states fix those systems in a mutually acceptable way, they could upload faulty data to SSA's computers, bringing to a halt the systems that process initial claims for disability benefits, GAO reported. SSA replied that it expects the systems will be fixed this year. governmentexecutive.com