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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Social Security (Disability, Retirement, SSI)
 
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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

counterfeitsaint posted:

I was talking to my mom earlier tonight and she mentioned getting a message from "social security" and that she tried to log into their website but the website said you can only log in during "business hours". Do I need to be concerned that she got phished or scammed or something, or does the actual social security website close down for weekends and nights?
Lots of parts of the Social Security website only run from 5:00 AM to 1:00 AM weekdays and shorter hours on weekends. Some web services are essentially implemented by duct taping modern webservers to ancient mainframes by having them teletype very quickly at interfaces originally intended for interactive operators on the phone helping people. Those get turned off overnight when batch processing stuff runs.

https://www.ssa.gov/myssa-static/rel_1.0/offHoursPopup.html

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