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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
https://www.ssa.gov/history/oasis/august1978.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8/12/1955 The Railroad Retirement Act was amended to increase a spouse's annuity and repealed the provision that had barred survivor annuitants from dual receipt of benefits under the railroad and OASI programs.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
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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.
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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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