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Computer Program Prevents 116-Year-Old Woman From Getting Pension (theguardian.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the Y2K-problem dept.

Bruce66423 quotes a report from The Guardian: Born at the turn of the past century, Maria Felix is old enough to remember the Mexican Revolution -- but too old to get the bank card needed to collect her monthly 1,200 pesos ($63) welfare payment. Felix turns 117 in July, according to her birth certificate, which local authorities recognize as authentic. She went three months without state support for poor elderly Mexicans after she was turned away from a branch of Citibanamex in the city of Guadalajara for being too old, said Miguel Castro, development secretary for the state of Jalisco. Welfare beneficiaries now need individual bank accounts because of new transparency rules, Castro said. "They told me the limit was 110 years," Felix said with a smile in the plant-filled courtyard of her small house in Guadalajara. In an emailed statement, Citibanamex, a unit of Citigroup Inc, said Felix's age exceeded the "calibration limits" of its system and it was working to get her the bank card as soon as possible. It said it was adjusting its systems to avoid a repeat of the situation.

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  1. Poor design by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The limit clearly should have been 256 from the beginning.

    1. Re: Poor design by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ah, the elusive off-by-one correctness. ;)

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    2. Re:Poor design by SharpFang · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, children below age of 1 are not eligible for elderly welfare benefits.

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  2. Computer Program? by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surely you meant "AI" or "deep neural net", not just a "computer program"? It is 2017.

  3. Humble request by hidflect · · Score: 5, Funny

    In accordance with our records, you should be dead now. Please do the needful...

  4. Re: So what's the issue? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For example, your glaring social inadequacies radiate through the anonymous projection on Slashdot.

  5. Adam lived to 930 by Bruce66423 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gen 5:5

    Methuselah 969 Gen 5:25

    What DO they teach them in Sunday School these days...