General Discussion

Make no mistake, the system absolutely needs to be rewritten/updated in the near future or it will collapse completely which would be very bad. However, the idea that such a system could be rewritten in months is insane. A project of this size would require at least 5 to 10 years to update.

Having dealt with state Unemployment Insurance system rewrites, those have typically taken anywhere between 5 & 25 years. UI systems are typically probably a little more complex than the SS system, but are far, far smaller.

I can state flat out that it is impossible to rewrite the SS system in a matter of months. Even if you had thousands of people working on it 24/7, you're looking at many years to complete such a project.

https://www.ssa.gov/open/materials/IT-Modernization-Plan.pdf