You find an interesting piece of code
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. SOCIAL-SECURITY-INCREASE.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 BASE-PAYMENT PIC 9(7)V99.
01 MULTIPLIER PIC 9V99 VALUE 1.00.
01 YEAR-COUNT PIC 9(2).
01 INCREASE-RATE PIC 9V99 VALUE 0.02.
01 FINAL-PAYMENT PIC 9(7)V99.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
COMPUTE-PAYMENT.
DISPLAY "Enter the base payment amount: "
ACCEPT BASE-PAYMENT.
DISPLAY "Enter the number of years: "
ACCEPT YEAR-COUNT.
PERFORM VARYING YEAR-COUNT FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL YEAR-COUNT > 37
COMPUTE MULTIPLIER = MULTIPLIER + INCREASE-RATE
END-PERFORM.
COMPUTE FINAL-PAYMENT = BASE-PAYMENT * MULTIPLIER.
DISPLAY "Final Social Security Payment: " FINAL-PAYMENT.
STOP RUN.After ChatGPT translating some code into python you discover that there’s an unexplained section of code here which appears to be adjusting the social security payments year after year by 0.02 for the last 37 years. Weird to adjust by a couple penny a year but multiplied by everyone receiving social security over time that can add up to a lot.
What do you do?