Your husband is not alone. Age discrimination is alive and well. I have had my position dissolved twice in the last 3 years. The first time I had been with the organization for 10 years so they gave me a severance package which helped. The last time it happened it took me almost 4 weeks to get onboarded and my contract job ended after 4 weeks thanks to contractual issues between my company and the company we were providing remote support for. Covid was blamed for retails stores shutting down and therefore the last 18 people they hired were let go. Welcome to the nightmare. The employers in the IT sector want you to know everything about everything and they only want to pay you entry level wages. I am so done with that. If you want my experience and knowledge you need to pay market value for me. If not, move along.