SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

DATE OF ESTABLISHMENT

• The Social Security Act was signed by the president on August 14, 1935

PURPOSE OF THE ACT

• After the Social Security Act was signed, it established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.

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• The act benefited workers, victims of industrial accidents, dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.

The Social Security Act's successes outnumbered it's failures, so thereby making it successful.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TODAY

• Social Security is used by almost everyone in the United States

SOURCES

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• http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/ssact-toc.htm