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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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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