Social Security's legacy software will be ‘substantially gone’ by 2022, CIO says

FedScoop: The Social Security Administration’s CIO said Thursday the agency’s IT modernization plan will make significant progress in reducing its reliance on legacy systems — but don’t expect them to be completely gone by 2022.

“I think it’s going to be substantially gone in five years, but it won’t be 100 percent gone in five years,” Rajive Mathur told the House Ways and Means Committee in a Thursday hearing about the SSA’s IT environment. “Because in some cases, it may not make sense for us to migrate an old legacy technology [system]. It may not make business sense.”

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