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8/14/1935 The Social Security Act (H.R. 7260, Public Law No. 271, 74th Congress) became law with the President's signature at approximately 3:30 p.m. on a Wednesday.
Social Security Act (1935) https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/social-security-act
Social Security in America, The President’s Committee on Economic Security https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/ces/cesbookpreface.html
Social Security Programs in the United States https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v52n7/v52n7p2.pdf
Reflections on The Beginnings of Social Security by Edwin E. Witte https://www.ssa.gov/history/witte4.html
Constitutional Background to the Social Security Act of 1935 https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v50n1/v50n1p5.pdf
OASIS issues -
https://www.ssa.gov/history/oasis/august1960.pdf
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8/13/1934 First meeting of the President's Committee on Economic Security.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ces.html

8/13/1939 Amendments to the Railroad Unemployment Insurance and the Railroad Retirement Acts and related legislation were approved. These brought about a more uniform coverage under social insurance measures for persons employed in certain types of coal mining operations which had previously been defined as constituting railroad employment.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v3n11/v3n11p12.pdf

8/13/1940 The Coal Mining Coverage Act was approved. It provided for more uniform coverage of certain persons employed in coal mining operations with respect to social insurance benefits under the Social Security Act.

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8/12/1955 Wilbur Cohen, then Director of the Division of Research and Statistics of the Social Security Administration interviewed Dr. Edwin Witte of the University of Wisconsin on the occasion of the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the approval of the Social Security Act (signed August 14, 1935).
https://www.ssa.gov/history/witte2.html

8/12/1955 The Railroad Retirement Act was amended to increase a spouse's annuity and repealed the provision that had barred survivor annuitants from dual receipt of benefits under the railroad and OASI programs.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v18n10/v18n10p22.pdf

8/12/1993 President Clinton signs into law the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA).https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter6.html

8/12/1998 SAP America/Stevie Wonder Vision Awards Program recognized SSA as the winner of the Siemens Award Of Excellence and received $35,000 for its technology infrastructure to support employees with visual impairments.

8/12/1998 SSA received the Hammer Award for the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) Screening unit.

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"It will be exactly four years ago on the fourteenth day of this month that I signed the original Social Security Act. As I indicated at that time and on various occasions since that time, we must expect a great program of social legislation, such as is represented in the Social Security Act, to be improved and strengthened in the light of additional experience and understanding. These amendments to the Act represent another tremendous step forward in providing greater security for the people of this country. ... In addition to the worker himself, millions of widows and orphans will now be afforded some degree of protection in the event of his death whether before or after his retirement..." - FDR on signing amendments to the Social Security Act -8/11/1939
https://www.ssa.gov/history/fdrstmts.html#1939b

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8/10/1939 The President signed the Social Security Amendments of 1939. The program was broadened to include dependents and survivors' benefits. Payment of monthly benefits was advanced to 1940. The Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund was created. https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/trust/tf1941.html https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v2n12/v2n12p3.pdf
The Trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds began the practice of issuing an Annual Report in 1941. This first Report, however, was never published. It was transmitted to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate as a letter from the Trustees

8/10/1946 The Social Security Act was amended to provide: monthly benefits under old age and survivors insurance for survivors of certain World War II veterans; coverage to private maritime employees under State unemployment insurance; temporary unemployment benefits to seamen with wartime Federal employment.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v9n9/v9n9p2.pdf

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8/9/1935 The Social Security Bill (H.R. 7260) was sent to the President after acceptance of the final conference report by the House and the Senate.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html

8/9/1941 (to August 12) President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill rendezvoused in a secret meeting in the North Atlantic for the purpose of discussing the principles they saw as governing the post-War world. This Conference resulted in the eight-point Atlantic Charter, which was officially announced on August 14, 1941.
https://www.fdrlibrary.org/atlantic-charter

8/9/1955 The Social Security Act was amended to extend to April 1, 1956, the period during which wage credits of $160 a month could be provided for military service, and extended the time for filing claims for lump-sum death payments with respect to servicemen dying overseas and being reburied in this country.

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8/8/1935 Shortly after the 74th Congress convened in January 1935, President Roosevelt sent his ‘Economic Security Bill’ to Capitol Hill. The Administration proposal was transmitted to the Congress on January 17, 1935 and it was introduced that same day in the Senate by Senator Robert Wagner (D-NY) and in the House by Congressman Robert Doughton (D-NC) and David Lewis (D-MD) … During a Ways & Means meeting on March 1, 1935 Congressman Frank Buck (D-CA) made a motion to change the name of the bill to the ‘Social Security Act of 1935.’ The motion was carried by a voice vote of the Committee … Due to differences between the House and Senate versions, the legislation then went to a Conference Committee which met throughout the month of July. Final House of Representatives action on the bill took place when the Conference Report was passed by voice vote on this day. The Senate agreed to the conference report by a voice vote on August 9.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html

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8/7/1934 The first club of the Townsend movement was chartered in Huntington Park, California.
“We started the organization of these clubs everywhere--loose-knit organisms without by-laws or rules other than those which might be adopted by a debating society--but how they grew.
After that first club, hundreds and then thousands were chartered throughout the forty-eight states and Alaska. By October 24, 1935, when we held our first national convention at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago two years after the Townsend Plan had first flashed upon the world, we had exactly 4,552 chartered clubs.” - Dr. Francis E. Townsend autobiography.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/towns8.html

8/7/1937 The Senate confirmed the last of the 52 nominees for Social Security Board for experts and attorney positions paying $5,000 or more a year.

8/7/1941 The reappointment of George E. Bigge as a member of the Social Security Board was confirmed by the Senate for a term ending August 13, 1947.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/bigge2.html

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8/6/1937 The Senate confirmed the appointment of George E. Bigge of Rhode Island to fill the vacancy in the membership of the Social Security Board which had existed since John G. Winant's resignation. Bigge's appointment was for a term ending August 13, 1941.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/bigge2.html

8/6/1947 The Social Security Act was amended to hold old-age and survivors insurance contribution rates for employers and employees at one percent for 1948 and 1949 and to schedule increases to 1.5 percent each for 1950 and 1951, and two percent each in 1952 and thereafter.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v10n9/v10n9p13.pdf

8/6/1968 The Republican Party platform offered a proposal to permit persons over the age of 65 to continue their social security payments and to defer their benefit payments until they retired.

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8/5/1948 The Advisory Council on Social Security presented its third report on recommended changes in public assistance to the Senate Finance Committee.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/48advise2a.html

8/5/1953 The Federal Unemployment Tax Act to cover Federal seamen under unemployment insurance was enacted.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v17n11/v17n11p18.pdf

8/5/1954 The Commissioner of Social Security approved the recommendation for the establishment of a separate Division of Disability Operations to be responsible for the administration of the disability freeze provisions of the 1954 Amendments of the Social Security Act. (This still had to be considered by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.)
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v66n3/v66n3p1.html

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8/4/1934 Professor Ed Witte of the University of Wisconsin wrapped up his role as Executive Director of its staff of President Roosevelt’s cabinet Committee on Economic Security. The Committee went out of existence when the Social Security bill was signed August 14, 1935.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/jdb4.html
Short essay on Professor Witte from “The Beginnings of Social Security,” by Wilbur J. Cohen: “… Ed Witte was not a man who tried to impress anyone. He didn't use five syllable words or fancy concepts so fashionable today in the social sciences. He wasn't able to use mathematical formulas, and he did not invent any new vocabulary to describe prevailing ideas or to theorize about existing institutions. He didn't try to win an argument or to hurt people by showing how much more he knew or how much more he had accomplished than someone else. But he was tenacious in clinging to opinions and principles in which he believed. He was a rare spirit and was admired by his students and colleagues…” https://www.ssa.gov/history/cohenwitte.html

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8/3/1937 Employment service expansion to meet the needs of the unemployment compensation program was furthered by the first grant approved under the Social Security Act to West Virginia.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v1n4/v1n4p28.pdf

8/3/1939 Arthur J. Altmeyer was reappointed for a six-year term as the Chairman of the Social Security Board.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/altmeyer2.html

8/3/1944 "How Distant is the Goal of Social Security? Speech by A. J. Altmeyer, Chairman, Social Security Board, at National Convention of Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles, Cincinnati, Ohio.
“In these days when everyone is preoccupied with the dramatic news from the war fronts, and when political crises in the enemy camp vie for attention with nine billion dollar international banks, it is gratifying to be asked to speak on the more human, or perhaps I should say humane, subject of social security which constitutes one of our chief hopes for a better world …”
https://www.ssa.gov/history/aja844.html

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8/2/1946 The Senate Committee on Finance was directed to make a complete study of the Social Security program and provisions for its extension.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v9n9/v9n9p2.pdf

8/2/2010 Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, opened in St. Louis, Missouri the Agency's fifth National Hearing Center (NHC).
https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/releases/2010/#8-2010-1

8/2/2010 The Committee on Ways and Means reported to the House H.R. 12580, the Social Security Amendments of 1960. The bill established a new Title XVI of the Social Security Act, providing Federal grants to the States to help pay the costs of medical services for aged people not on Public Assistance but unable to meet their medical expenses.

8/2/2011 The President signed S. 365, the Budget Control Act of 2011 into law shortly after the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 74-26. The House passed the bill on August 1, 2011 by a vote of 269-161. The law generally establishes limits on government-wide discretionary spending through 2021.
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_080211.html

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7/30/1947 Under Public Law No. 131, certain aged recipients of assistance could continue, until July 1, 1949, to work for wages on a farm or care for the sick without having such wages jeopardize their assistance payment.
Social Security Bulletin Vol. 10, No. 9 (released September 1947) page 14 (bottom) https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v10n9/v10n9p13.pdf

7/30/1965 Providing Better Service to The Public: Commissioner Ball approved the establishment of a branch office facilities program.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/lbjoper2.html

7/30/1965 President Johnson signed H.R. 6675 - Medicare (as part of the Social Security Amendments of 1965) - to provide health insurance for the elderly. It was signed in Independence, Missouri, in the presence of Harry S. Truman who opened the fight for such legislation in a message to Congress in 1945.

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7/29/1941 The Social Security Board approved a draft copy of a reciprocal arrangement with the Dominion of Canada for handling unemployment contributions and benefits and also procedures for the transmittal of the agreement and the official adoption by both Governments.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/ces/cesbookapen8.html

7/29/1948 The President approved Public Law 813 which transferred the administration of the Federal Credit Union Act ... within the Social Security Administration.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v18n8/v18n8p28.pdf (Page 2)

7/29/1999 Prepared Statement by Kenneth S. Apfel Commissioner of Social Security before The House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Subject - Information Technology Enhancements. "Throughout its almost 65-year history, Social Security has made a difference in the lives of Americans, and we have a responsibility to be careful stewards of our programs both now and as we move into the 21st century...”
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/testimony_072999.html

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7/28/1931 "France has experimented to a considerable degree with the use of a stamp method for the collection of social insurance contributions ...
To remove this cause of error, the amending act of July 28, 1931, introduced a stamp in two parts, one surcharged "V " (vieillesse) for the old-age
card, the other part was surcharged "M " (maladie) for the sickness insurance card."
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v2n6/v2n6p18.pdf

7/28/1965 Medicare: The final bill was approved in the US House of representatives and Senate, "Thus, America finally joined the many other nations that provided health insurance protection for the aged--in Winston Churchill's phrase, bringing 'the magic of averages to the rescue of millions'." https://www.ssa.gov/history/corningchap4.html

7/28/1999 President Clinton submitted James G. Huse, Jr.’s nomination to the Senate to become the second IG of SSA. On November 10, 1999, the Senate confirmed Mr. Huse’s nomination and on November 22, 1999, in a ceremony in Baltimore, Maryland, Mr. Huse was sworn into office. https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter6.html

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7/27/1934 "...For a large proportion of our population then there is a constant dread of the future. This dread itself is one of the serious features in society, respon­sible as it is for much of the mental disorder which is filling our hospitals and institutions at an alarming rate today ..." - Seward C. Simons, Executive Director, Pasadena Community Chest and Council of Social Agencies, Institute of Public Affairs, University of California at Los Angeles, with the co­operation of the Pacific Southwest Academy and the Pacific Sociological Society.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/ces/ces6simons.html

7/27/1939 Unemployment benefits were suspended in South Dakota. The State's employment service offices were closed because the State legislature failed to appropriate the necessary amount of State funds for their operation.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/Downey%20PDFs/Social%20Security%20Amendments%20of%201939.pdf

7/27/1960 The Republican National Convention endorsed a platform plank which supported Federal-State grant programs to improve health services for the aged.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1960

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7/29/1941 The organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, while the forces were in the service of the Armed Forces of the United States pursuant to the military order of the President became covered by the term “World War II veteran.” https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title08/0812.htm

7/26/1965 The Social Security Administration was reorganized to accommodate the administration of the new health insurance program (Medicare) and at the same tine continue its standards of service to the public. https://www.ssa.gov/history/65reorg.html and https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/lbjorg2.html

7/26/1990 On this landmark day, President George H. W. Bush signed into law the, Americans With Disability Act of 1990 (P. L. 101-336). https://www.ada.gov/ada_intro.htm

7/26/1999 Commissioner Apfel announced in SSA News Bytes that the Office of Communications had received two Emmy Awards from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the public service ad-The Future of Social Security.

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7/25/1947 An act was approved terminating certain emergency and war powers, including amendments to Title II of the Social Security Act.
https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title02/0217.htm

7/25/1952 Social Security Act Amendments of 1952 provides old-age and survivors insurance wage credits of $160 for each month of service in the active
military or naval service of the United States from July 25, 1947, through December 31, 1953.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v15n9/v15n9p3.pdf

7/25/1956 The original GI Bill expired. More see Military Veteran’s and Social Security - 2010 update by Anya Olsen and Samantha O’Leary: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v71n2/ssb-v71n2.pdf

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7/24/1934 Dr. Edwin E. Witte accepted the position of Executive Director of the Committee on Economic Security.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/wittepio.html

7/24/1942 The first field office of the War Manpower Commission opened in Baltimore, a critical labor supply area.
https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/211.html

7/24/1958 An agreement was reached between the Railroad Board and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare whereby the Board would make disability freeze determinations for career railroad workers conclusive only for the purpose of determining benefit payments under the railroad retirement program while DHEW would continue to make disability freeze determinations for all Social Security benefit purposes and for purposes of the financial interchange provisions. This compromise proposal was put into effect by an amendment to S. 2020 which was approved on September 6, 1958 (P.L. 85-927).
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v68n2/v68n2p41.html

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7/23/1947 Senate Resolution 141, superseding Senate Resolution 320 (August 2, 1946) gave the United States Senate Committee on Finance authorization and appropriation for investigating the Social Security program. The Committee was authorized to appoint an Advisory Council to assist and advise in the study.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/48advise4.html

7/23/1992 Robert M. Ball, "Social Security 'Notch' Issues", testimony before the Committee on Ways and Means, Sub-Committee on Social Security, United States House of Representatives.
The Commission on the Social Security "Notch" Issue - https://www.ssa.gov/history/notchfile1.html

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7/22/1935 “During his three brief years in the U.S. Senate, Huey Long became one of the most flamboyant and provocative Senators in the nation's history…” On this day his bombast included, “… I was the sole author of a plan known as the share-our-wealth plan. It proposed that none should own too much, and none should own too little. It necessarily required a redistribution of wealth, so that those who had more than they had any business with, should be made to give over to the Government the money and things which the Government would furnish to the people who did not have enough upon which to live. I proposed that plan when I became a member of the United States Senate early in 1932…”
Congressional Record: https://www.ssa.gov/history/longsen.html

7/22/1946 The constitution of the World Health Organization was signed by representatives of 61 nations.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v9n10/v9n10p18.pdf
https://www.who.int/about/governance/constitution

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7/21/1930 The Veterans Administration was established by Executive Order.
https://www.va.gov/HISTORY/VA_History/Overview.asp

7/21/1940 Statement Before the Senate Special Committee on Old Age Security By Arthur J. Altmeyer, Chairman of the Social Security Board. “Unfortunately, it must be recognized that at the present time our economic system cannot supply all our wants for all of our people. The only way all of us can live better is by our economic system both producing an increased amount of goods and services, and by providing the necessary income to buy those goods and services. There are many needs today which must be met. Each need must be balanced against other needs.”
Full text: https://www.ssa.gov/history/aja741.html

7/21/1941 The operation of Arizona's employment service offices was taken over by the Social Security Board under arrangement between the Board and the Arizona Employment Security Commission. Thus, the State Commission was to pay unemployment compensation benefits through employment service offices operated by the Board.

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Called “The Social Security Administration’s Disability Programs: Explanations of Recent Growth and Implications for Disability Policy,” held July 20-21, 1998 in Washington, D.C., was the forum for presenting the Lewin-VHI study.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter4.html

7/20/1994 House-Senate conferees met to resolve their differences on H.R. 4277 and reached agreement on this day. At an historic White House bill-signing ceremony on August 15, 1994, Public Law 103-296 Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994 was signed into law.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v58n1/v58n1p57.pdf

7/20/1995 Dr. Marilyn Moon and Stephen G. Kellison were appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate to serve four-year terms as Public Trustee of the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance trust funds. Their terms began on July 20, 1995. More on Dr. Marilyn Moon: https://www.nasi.org/member_spotlight/marilyn-moon/ National Academy of Social Insurance
Social Security Trustees Dr. Marilyn Moon and Stephen G. Kellison Testimony C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5024363/user-clip-social-security-trustees-dr-marilyn-moon-stephen-g-kellison-testimony"

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7/19/1933 “After President Roosevelt came into office millions of hopeful Americans wrote letters to President, offering advise and requesting help… a letter sent by Mrs. M. A. Zoller on behalf of her aged mother … informs the President that her mother will be 82 in August and has no means of support, and she appeals for the President's help.”
https://www.ssa.gov/history/lettertoFDR.html

7/19/1945 The Lord Mayor of Berlin announced a new social insurance system for the inhabitants of Berlin with protection against the risks of old age, invalidity, and unemployment and provision for hospital insurance and free medicines for the insured. Both employer and employee would contribute ten percent of the employee's earnings to the city insurance fund.

7/19/1954 A new designation for the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance's offices was approved; from Field Office, FO Manager, and Assistant FO Manager, to District Office, District Manager, and Assistant District Manager.
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7/18/1945 The Senate confirmed the reappointment of Arthur J. Altmeyer as Chairman of the Social Security Board for a six-year term expiring August 13, 1951.
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https://www.ssa.gov/history/collectalt.html

7/18/1952 The Social Security Act of 1952 was signed into law by President Truman. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v15n9/v15n9p3.pdf

7/18/1956 Following enactment of the disability freeze in 1954, proponents of expanding Social Security benefits to include disability once again began to push for cash benefits for the disabled. The House of Representatives passed their version of a bill that President Eisenhower signed the bill into law on August 1, 1956 on this day.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/tall56.html

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7/17/1935 The Senate agreed, by voice vote, to Mississippi’s Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison's motion to insist on keeping the Clark amendment and ask for a further conference. The bill moved to conference. https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/crsleghist3.html

7/17/1936 The Social Security Board’s regional directors were told that 600 Bureau field offices would be open by November.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/ssb-v69n2.pdf

7/17/1957 The Social Security Act was amended to extend to June 30, 1958, an OASDI provision relating to disability freeze applications and modified the offset provision so that the receipt of Veteran's Administration disability compensation did not mean a reduction of the disability benefit under the Social Security Act.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/1986dibhistory.html

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7/16/1798 The Marine Hospital Service was established by an act of Congress, to provide for the temporary relief and maintenance of sick and disabled seamen. This was the first prepaid medical care program in the United States, financed through compulsory employer tax and federally administered. This service later became the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, predecessor to the Public Health Service of today.
https://www.cdc.gov/museum/online/story-of-cdc/roots/index.html

7/16/1946 Under the President's Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1946, the Social Security Board was abolished and its functions transferred to FSA and the Social Security Administration was established to carry on programs of the Social Security Board and those of the Children's Bureau.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v9n12/v9n12p3.pdf

7/16/1949 The President signed Public Law 174, extending for one year to June 30, 1950, reconversion and unemployment benefits for seamen provided by Title XIII of the Social Security Act.
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7/15/1935 The first Government health insurance bill to be introduced in Congress was the so-called "Epstein bill," drafted by Abraham Epstein and sponsored by Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas in 1935 (S. 3253).
https://www.ssa.gov/history/corningchap2.html

7/15/1952 President Truman signed Public Law 555 and Public Law 548, amendments to the Civil Service Retirement Act.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v15n11/v15n11p15.pdf

7/15/2000 President William J. Clinton Radio Address to the Nation, Camp David, Maryland. “For more than seven years now, our nation has followed a course of fiscal discipline that has paid tremendous dividends for the American people. We made tough choices, cut our deficits, paid down our debt. We've strengthened and extended the life of Social Security and Medicare …”
https://www.ssa.gov/history/clntstmts3.html#27

7/15/2004 President Bush signed into law H.R. 1731, the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act which imposed criminal penalties for theft of another person's identity, including for purposes of obtaining Social Security-related benefits.
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_072004.html

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6/3/1943 The first Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill was introduced. The bill provided for major changes in the Social Security Act, including disability benefits, and creation of a compulsory national health insurance program for all people. https://www.historians.org/resource/has-a-national-health-program-been-put-before-congress/

6/3/1981 Testimony on "Women and Social Security,” Commissioner Robert M. Ball before the Task Force on Social Security and Women of the Sub-Committee on Retirement Income and Employment and the Select Committee on Aging, United States House of Representatives, 97th Congress, First Session, Volume 4, Page 55-72.

6/3/1991 The US and Finland sign the treaties: Agreement on Social Security (TIAS 12105) and Administrative Arrangement for the Implementation of the Agreement on Social Security (TIAS 12105).
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter5ex.html

6/3/1995 Report of the Social Security Advisory Council Meetings on June 2 and 3 issued.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/adcouncil/meeting/advisory_council_060295.html

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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
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- 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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5/30/1908 "On May 30, 1908, Congress passed a limited accident compensation act to protect some Federal employees." - OASIS September 1979
https://www.ssa.gov/history/oasis/september1979.pdf

5/30/1997 The first Annual Report of the Supplemental Security Income Program was released to President Clinton and to the Congress. May 30, was established for SSA to prepare and deliver reports to the President and Congress on an annual basis.
To obtain SSI Annual Reports: https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ssir/
For more information on Understanding Supplemental Security Income SSI Eligibility Requirements: https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-eligibility-ussi.htm
Image: Federal SSI Payments As A Percentage Of Gross Domestic Product, Calendar Years 1975‑2040
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5/30/1966 Commissioner of Social Security Robert M. Ball delivers, "Social Action and Social Security Health Insurance", at the National Conference on Social Welfare, in Chicago, IL.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/n/ncosw/ach8650.1966.001/255?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=Robert+M.+Ball

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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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Remembering the 168 hard working civil servants (including 16 SSA employees) who made the ultimate sacrifice at their duty stations on, April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m. CST, when our nation experienced a profound tragedy in the terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoma City Bombing - A Survivor's Story:
https://youtu.be/wZ9POQYO1ao

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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.
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4/6/2011 Entertainment icons @georgetakei Takei and Patty Duke teamed up to tell Americans to Boldly Go to www.socialsecurity.gov.🖖
More @YouTube https://youtu.be/-Dn3quUzaUM

Duke: "It's so easy, even Kirk could do it."

Takei: "Oh my!"
 
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“In its first report of January 29, 1936, the Field Organization Committee proposed at least one ‘district office’ per state, located in state capitals, with additional district offices based on workload … On April 6, 1937, the Board abandoned the concept of district and branch offices in favor of ‘field offices,’ all equally under the authority of the regional representative, but varying in size and staff according to ‘compensable load,’ presumably meaning the estimated number of covered workers. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/v70n3p27.html

4/6/1942 The US Supreme Court upheld the validity of the common control provision of Mississippi's unemployment compensation law. https://ballotpedia.org/Unemployment_insurance_in_Mississippi

4/6/2000 Social Security Commissioner Kenneth Apfel, and American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National Union President Bobby Harnage, signed a new four-year collective bargaining contract.

4/6/2011 Entertainment icons @georgetakei and Patty Duke teamed up to tell Americans to Boldly Go to www.socialsecurity.gov. https://youtu.be/-Dn3quUzaUM
 
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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, Women's History Month Edition Five:

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In honor of Women's History Month, here is compilation of pioneering women in the history of the Social Security in America.

For more information and profiles of these and other notable individuals, please visit Social Security Pioneers: Women https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/social-security-pioneers-women-guy-clinch

Edition One https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-ssahistgwc-activity-7304145264494202881-jgP9/ featured an expanded profile of Frances Perkins, Labor Secretary during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration and the driving force behind many of the progressive reforms underpinning America's post war success.

Edition Two: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-ssahistgwc-activity-7306659783049134080-91cU/

Edition Three: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-ssahistgwc-activity-7308871625263771649-EQok/

Edition Four - Shirtwaist Factory Fire: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-wearenotgoingback-activity-7310303274081923072-TrVe/

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Martha A. McSteen (1923 - 1983)
Margaret M. Heckler (1931 - 2018)
Donna E. Shalala (1941 - )
Jane L. Ross (1942 - 2024)
Dorcas R. Hardy (1946 - 2019)Gwendolyn S. King (1940- )
Shirley Sears Chater (1932 - )
Jo Anne B. Barnhart (1950 - )
Yvette S. Jackson

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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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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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Referring to the Townsend movement: an editorial on February 13, 1934. More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/towns8.html

2/13/1936 The first Public Assistance checks were mailed(5 States).
More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/altm5.html and https://www.ssa.gov/history/jh25.html

2/13/1940 An Appeals Council, consisting of three members, was appointed by the Social Security Board More: https://www.ssa.gov/appeals/about_ac.html

2/13/1945 Greece initiated an experimental unemployment insurance fund for wage earners and salaried employees in industry.

2/13/1961 H.R. 4222, the Health Insurance Benefits Act of 1961.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v25n10/v25n10p3.pdf

2/13/1984 U.S.-U.K. Social Security Agreement and administrative agreement both signed at London. More: https://lnkd.in/eQnDnrMQ

2/13/1996 The headquarters DSU is opened up for volunteers from all headquarters components. More: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v66n3/v66n3p29.html

2/13/1996 Robert J. Myers died at age 97.
More: https://lnkd.in/emVaUF6c and Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2010, pg. 83, https://lnkd.in/ejHDAD6w

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Establishing the Social Security was impeded for 3½ months due to a filibuster by Senator Huey Long (D–LA): https://lnkd.in/e7tG7qJK, Huey Long Bio: https://www.hueylong.com/resources/biography.php

2/9/1942 The Social Security Board was given certain responsibilities in the program for aid to enemy aliens removed from the West Coast.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v60n2/v60n2p68.pdf and https://www.ssa.gov/history/civilwar.html

2/9/1961 The President's Health Message was the first of its kind ever to be devoted exclusively to the need for a health care program.
More: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/health-care-in-america

2/9/1996 First meeting of the new Social Security Advisory Board was held in Baltimore.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/adviseb.html

2/9/1998 President Clinton delivered a major address on Social Security at @georgetown discussing the future of Social Security. More: https://lnkd.in/ewmhAQrh

2/9/2003 China's Cabinet approved plans on February 9 to have the fund invest assets overseas. More: https://lnkd.in/eNZj8G-E

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December 20, 1977, James Earl Carter Jr. (1924 – 2024) signed H R 9346 (Public Law 95-216), the Social Security Amendments of 1977. The presidential statement issued upon the signing of the bill stated that Its provisions “are tremendous achievements and represent the most important social security legislation since the program was established.”

The 1977 amendments reaffirmed the basic principles and goals of the Social Security program The amendments make future benefits and costs much more predictable and restore the financial soundness of the program into the 21st century.

- Features -
*Benefit Adjustments
*Solvency
*Exempt Amount Adjustments
*Spousal Benefits
*Simplified Wage Reporting
*International Agreements

💗Thank you President Carter.💗

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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.

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