Contingency planning: it's the real thing! (Social Security Administration's Year 2000 program) (Government Activity)

Enterprise Systems Journal,  January, 1998  by Reid, Warren S.

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The Social Security Administration's (SSA) discovery of an additional 33 million lines of code that had been overlooked in it's year 2000 program dealt the agency a serious blow because it did not have a contingency plan in place to handle unforeseen situations. Since its year 2000 program had started in 1988, the SSA had nearly fixed the 34 million lines of code it was aware of.

However, it had overlooked the code in state programs needed to determine eligibility for federal disability payments. Complete analysis and disclosure of year 2000 problems and risks requires a detailed contingency ...

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