The last thing you need when you’ve lost your job is to be unable to file for unemployment. Or, if you’re short on funds, to be stuck waiting for your stimulus check. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happened to many of us. Most of the blame for that has been piled onto the 60-year-old COBOL language. That’s because the underlying software for many state unemployment systems and the IRS is written in COBOL.

Where’s my check? COBOL’s role in delay of stimulus and unemployment payments More>