Social Security’s Perilous Plan for Its Future

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20. re: So why in fucking hell can't SSA do this itself instead of farming it out

I blasted the SSA on their own blog about this: http://blog.ssa.gov/new-years-resolution-get-a-my-social-security-account/#comment-31283

I mean... I have tried 30 times already. Thirty times I get the "We're sorry" response. I threw everything I knew personally at it. I can't just walk into a SSA office (and wait HOURS) to get an activation code.

I mean, I receive benefits already. Can't they just use their own internal database for that??? Seriously. Skip the checks with Experian. I already get benefits from you, this agency who can't even modernize or even hire a proper PHP programmer to write middleware to realize "Hey... this is already a beneficiary. Skip the check with Experian! Get him through!"

Shit... I know better people who can do this in their sleep with a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack... but a netcat showed me they're using Microsoft IIS... (barf...)

And every time I try to get help, they don't give me any on the phone...

To simply put this in a Linux one-liner:

for ssa {still-using-experian}; do sudo rm -rvf experian* ; done

If they can't do that... this is stupid. And start using LINUX, Social Security! Microsoft IIS is WRONG!