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6/2/1920 The Vocational Rehabilitation Act (commonly called the Smith-Fess Act) was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.
https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-smith-fess-act

6/2/1936 The Social Security account number, which contained no significant facts about the employee other than the State of registry, was approved by the Social Security Board.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html

6/2/1939 "...following public hearings on the proposed amendments and 6 weeks of executive sessions, the Committee on Ways and Means reported to the House H.R. 6635, embodying its recommendations for amendments to the Social Security Act. The day before, the House had debated and voted on the Townsend old-age pension bill. The Townsend plan, embodied in H.R. 6466 introduced by Mr. McGroarty (D-CA) in January 1935, was offered as a substitute for H.R. 6635 https://web.archive.org/web/20250523013105/https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/crsleghist3.html
More on the Townsend Plan Movement
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250404113148/https://www.ssa.gov/history/towns5.html

6/2/2005 President George W. Bush discusses strengthening Social Security for rural America. https://web.archive.org/web/20250523013228/https://www.ssa.gov/history/gwbushstmts5b.html#060205

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5/29/1930 President Herbert Hoover signed into law the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, establishing a retirement system for federal employees.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v4n4/v4n4p29.pdf

5/29/1944 Michigan added a provision for dependents' allowances to its State unemployment insurance law; only one other jurisdiction (D.C.) had included such provision in its original law.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v48n10/v48n10p22.pdf

5/29/1998 SSA released its second Annual Report on the SSI Program.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/ssir/SSI98/ssi1998.pdf

5/29/1998 A Social Security Board ruling was issued that stated: when a State agency operated under a State merit system established by legislative enactment, the moneys appropriated under the Social Security Act for grants to the States for the fiscal year 1943-1944 could not be withheld by the Social Security Board for the Children's Bureau because those agencies disapproved of the personnel of the State agency, the manner of their selection, or their rates of pay."

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5/17/1940 The Social Security Board established regulations relative to entitlement to and computation of benefits. https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

5/17/1963 J. Douglas Brown delivered the talk, “The Birth of Old-Age Insurance, 1934-35.”
https://www.ssa.gov/history/jdb4.html

5/17/1982 SSA began annotating SSN cards issued to aliens assigned nonwork SSNs. https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/ssnreportc3.html

5/17/1987 Wilbur J. Cohen, former Secretary of HEW and a major influence on the Social Security program since its inception, died.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/wilburc.html & https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/cohen-wilbur-j/

5/17/1994 SSA's award winning Internet site was launched on the World-Wide Web. https://www.ssa.gov/history/Websitehistory.html and https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter5.html

5/17/1996 The Western Program Service Center in Richmond, California was renamed the Frank Hagel Federal Building.

5/17/2002 Commissioner Barnhart and Dallas L. Salisbury, announced plans to enhance national education efforts on the importance of saving.

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5/12/1933 The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was created with an appropriation of $500,000,000. https://users.nber.org/~confer/2004/CR04/WallisFishbackKantor_NewDeal.pdf

5/12/1933 The Agriculture Adjustment Act created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
https://federalism.org/encyclopedia/no-topic/agricultural-adjustment-act-of-1933

5/12/1952 H.R. 7800 was introduced by Representative Doughton, Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v15n9/v15n9p3.pdf

5/12/1981 "The Administration offered another legislative package, with 13 additional proposals for Social Security programs, virtually all of which were cuts of various types. Several of these proposals were quite dramatic ..."
https://www.ssa.gov/history/studentbenefit.html

5/12/2009 The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report.
https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2009/

5/12/2015 SSA.gov Frequently Asked Questions Website Enhancement Selected for the ClearMark Award of Distinction.
https://www.ssa.gov/agency/awards/#year2015
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"The world does not owe a man a
living, I grant you, but as surely as a God rules the heavens,
it does owe him a chance to make a living! [Applause.)"
Congressional Record 4/15/1949 https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/h415.pdf

4/15/1965 When H.R. 6675 reached the Senate, the risk to the bill came from liberals eager to expand coverage by adding amendments to the bill. https://congresscenters.org/great-society-congress/exhibits/show/legislation/item/196

4/15/1974 SSA implemented evidence requirements (age, identity, and citizenship/alien status) for applicants for an original SSN who are foreign-born, or are U.S.-born and age 18 or older. http://ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html

4/15/1996 The 1994 - 1996 Social Security Advisory Board held its final public meeting in Washington, D.C.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/adcouncil/index.html
 
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4/5/1935 The US House of Representatives began debate on The Social Security Act of 1935.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/senate35.html

4/5/1944 The United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, held that money paid to a widow, after the death of her wage-earner husband pursuant to a back-pay award by the National Labor Relations Board entered after the wage earner's death, did not constitute wages as defined in the original Social Security Act because it was not remuneration for employment.
More on, Social Security and Vulnerable Groups—Policy Options to Aid Widows: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46182

4/5/1948, President Truman vetoed H.R. 5052, a bill to exclude vendors of newspapers and magazines from social security coverage.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v11n7/v11n7p3.pdf
 
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Social Security History: Independence

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SSA: THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE

SSA began life as an independent agency in 1935, became a sub-cabinet agency in 1939, and returned full-circle to independent status in 1995. Throughout the years, arguments had been heard in the halls of Congress that SSA should be returned to independent agency status. The 1983 National Commission on Social Security Reform (aka, the Greenspan Commission) again raised this issue and recommended a special study be commissioned of the matter. This special study was completed in 1984 and it outlined several options for making SSA an independent agency. This led to numerous legislative proposals in the ensuing years and in 1994 the legislation passed both houses of Congress unanimously. (See statements of support by Congressional officials.)

President Clinton signed the bill on August 15, 1994 (59 years and one day after FDR signed the original Act - https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1560/all-info)on March 31, 1995 at a ceremony at SSA Headquarters in Baltimore.
Source: https://www.ssa.gov/history/orghist.html
Social Security Administration Created as an Independent Agency: Public Law 103-296 https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v58n1/v58n1p57.pdf
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" Resolved, That the General Court of Massachusetts favors the immediate enactment by Congress of suitable legislation creating a national compulsory unemployment-insurance..." F.W. Cook, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the US House of Representatives. https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/h416.pdf

3/27/1960 (March 27 - April 2, 1960) The sixth White House Conference on Children and Youth was held.
More: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED078896.pdf

3/27/1969 (March 27 & May 21, 1969) President Nixon signed the Reorganization Act. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-establishing-common-regional-boundaries-for-agencies-providing-social-and

3/27/1891 SSA awarded a commu­nications terminal replacement contract to the Paradyne Corp. of Largo, Florida. See: The Paradyne Affair (Pg. 126) - https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/ota86.pdf

3/27/2006 SSA published its Disability Service Improvement initiative. https://s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/cg-778536a2-e58c-44f1-9173-29749804ec54/uploads/2023/12/2006-HearingProcess_2006.pdf
 
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The Day the New Deal Was Born, New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire:
On Saturday, March 25, 1911, at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a lethal fire broke out on the factory floor. more than one hundred women and two dozen men. Less than three weeks after the fire, on April 11, 1911, factory co-owners Isaac Harris and Max Blanck were indicted on charges of manslaughter - but when the case went to trial that December, they were found not guilty.

The attached video includes audio from that Triangle Fire 50th Anniversary Commemoration, March 25, 1961. Hear: former Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. In her own voice, you will hear Madame Perkins say,
"I am one of the very few people still alive who not only remember the triangle fire, but who saw it ... that with affection and respect upon those who died on March 25th, 1911, in this great fire. For this we can be thankful, and we can still say, these dead have not died in vain, and we will never forget them."

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Social Security Pioneers, Black History Month Edition:

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Patricia R. Harris
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. During her tenure, the department was renamed Health and Human Services.
1979-1981
Info: https://www.ssa.gov/history/harris.html

Herbert R. Doggette, Jr.
Social Security Commissioner
January 1, 1980 to January 2, 1980 (Acting),
and, January 20, 1981 to May 5, 1981 (Acting)
Info: https://www.ssa.gov/history/doggette.html

Gwendolyn S. King
Commissioner of Social Security
August 1, 1989 to September 30, 1992
Info: https://www.ssa.gov/history/king.html

Carolyn W. Colvin
Acting Commissioner
February 14, 2013 - January 20, 2017
November 30, 2024 - January 2025
Info: https://www.ssa.gov/history/colvin.html

Ruth Pierce
Associate Deputy Commissioner for Regional Operations

Kilolo Kijakazi
Acting Commissioner
July 9, 2021 – December 20, 2023
Info: https://www.ssa.gov/history/kijakazi.html

And many contributors at all levels of the organization working day by day, year after year, in service to the American public.

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2/20/1935 The Senate Committee on Finance completed hearings on the "Economic Security Bill" More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html and https://www.ssa.gov/history/ret.html

2/20/1946 The Employment Act of 1946 was enacted to declare a continuing national policy on employment, production, and purchasing power. More: https://lnkd.in/eZ5hkAsU

2/20/1947 Arthur J. Altmeyer was elected Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the International Refugee Organization. More: https://cdn.un.org/unyearbook/yun/chapter_pdf/1946-47YUN/1946-47_P2_SEC8.pdf

2/20/1953 The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee set up a special subcommittee to handle Social Security bills. https://www.ssa.gov/history/1949radiodebate.html

2/20/1961 JFK submitted draft proposals to Congress for improvements in old-age, survivors and disability insurance programs. More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/jfkstmts.html#letter

2/20/1990 The Supreme Court held in Sullivan vs Zebley that substantial parts of the SSI are inconsistent with the Social Security Act. More Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 3, 2010, pg. 60: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/ssb-v70n3.pdf

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2/15/1909 President Theodore Roosevelt sent a message to Congress RE: a Federal Children's Bureau. He said:
“It is not only discreditable to us as a people that there is now no recognized and authoritative source of information ... its great corrective power, can only be aroused by full knowledge of the facts.” More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/childb2.html

2/15/1933 A mentally ill, unemployed brick layer named Giuseppe Zangara shouts "Too many people are starving!" and fires a gun at America’s president-elect, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. https://youtu.be/ceguODYK90A

2/15/1973 Robert M. Ball, Commissioner of Social Security 1962 to 1973, Speech before the National Organizations Conference--February 15, 1973. More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/bobball.html

2/15/2000 SSA launched its Electronic Newsletter (e-News).
More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter7.html

2/15/2012, SSA resumed targeted mailings of the Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statement (PEBES).
More: Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 74, No. 2, 2014 https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v74n2/ssb-v74n2.pdf

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1/3/1941 Trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds began the practice of issuing an Annual Report. https://lnkd.in/eU-s7uNN

1/3/1969 The Robert H. Finch, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare transmitted to the President a report on the retirement test under the Social Security program as called for by the 1967 amendments. Bio: https://lnkd.in/eNE-snkG

1/3/1980 William J. Driver entered on duty as Commissioner of Social Security. (He was confirmed by the Senate on March 24, 1980 .) Mr. Driver had headed the Veteran's Administration from 1965 to 1969. More: https://lnkd.in/gmxztMEG

1/3/1996 John R. Dyer became Acting Principal Deputy Commissioner. More: https://lnkd.in/gkJAm5ik

1/3/2000 In an interview in 1997, Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Systems, Kathleen Adams, was asked if SSA was ready for Y2K. She responded, “We have no choice...” And SSA did make it. More: https://lnkd.in/eyvu29Kh

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So much happened in Social Security Administration history throughout the years on January First, I have chronicled them in the article at the following link: https://lnkd.in/eiDs-522

The attached video highlights some of the most significant events. Visit the article for reference links and additional background.

🥂 Happy New Year! 🕛

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