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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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