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On this Day in Social Security History:

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8/12/1955 The Railroad Retirement Act was amended to increase a spouse's annuity and repealed the provision that had barred survivor annuitants from dual receipt of benefits under the railroad and OASI programs.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

More Social Security history: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ & #SSAHistGWC

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