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I could be mistaken, but, doesn't the Treasury Department print those checks?
Treasury is in deep do-do.
Happy New Year,
Rusty
Carl Amedio wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Social Security Called Y2K Ready
>
> By ROBERT BURNS Associated Press Writer
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Social Security Administration has completed its
> preparations for the Year 2000, ensuring the government's ability to deliver
> benefit checks to millions of Americans into the new millennium without
> computer problems, President Clinton announced today.
>
> ``The millennium bug will not delay the payment of Social Security checks by a
> single day,'' Clinton said in a White House ceremony.
>
> ``The Social Security system is now 100 percent compliant with our standards
> and safeguards for the year 2000,'' the president said. ``To make absolutely
> certain, the system has been tested and validated by a panel of independent
> experts. The system works. It is secure, and therefore older Americans can
> feel more secure.''
>
> Kathy Adams, the Social Security Administration's assistant deputy
> commissioner for systems, said it took 2,800 workers, including 700
> programmers, to ensure the agency's computers are ready for the year 2000.
>
> Clinton said the potential disruptions on Jan. 1, 2000 go well beyond the
> Social Security system.
>
> ``This involves not just federal agencies, but everyone who depends upon a
> computer, which is everyone, directly or indirectly,'' Clinton said. ``Federal
> and state governments and local governments, businesses large and small -- the
> year 2000 problem reveals the connections between all of us.''
>
> Mostly to save money, programmers of early computers represented each year by
> its last two digits rather than by all four -- 1972 became 72. Trouble begins
> when computers try to add or subtract dates using that two-digit format and
> the world approaches the Year 2000, or 00. The larger, old mainframe computers
> still used by government and big corporations for many vital functions are
> particularly vulnerable.
>
> The Clinton administration has set a goal of ensuring that all critical
> federal computer systems are Y2K compliant by March 31, 1999.
>
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