#newdeal

**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · 1d

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/16/1942 The administration of Federal Credit Unions was transferred by Executive Order of the President from the Farm Credit Administration to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v11n10/v11n10p13.pdf

5/16/1949 The names of all organizational units in the Social Security Administration below the divisional level were changed. In general, the former sections became branches, units became sections and sub-units became units.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/orghist.html

5/16/1966 The one-millionth disabled worker in current payment status was added to the disability benefit rolls. In February 1966, Marlin Enders, a 51-year-old coal miner from Tremont, Pennsylvania was awarded disability benefits for himself and his family.

5/16/1968 Wilbur J. Cohen was sworn in as Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/cohen.html

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

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**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · 2d

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/15/1948 Puerto Rico passed a law providing unemployment insurance benefits for workers in the sugar industry. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1174&context=si_pubs

5/15/1952 Public Law 343 was signed. It increased unemployment and sickness benefits for railroad workers by 30% to 60%--financed by a payroll levy on the railroads. https://rrb.gov/The_Railroad_Unemployment_Insurance_Act_of_1938_and_Later_Amendments

5/15/1978 SSA began requiring evidence of age, identity, and citizenship/alien status from all applicants for original SSNs, and evidence of identity for replacement Social Security cards. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html

5/15/1995 The first calls of the Salinas teleservice center (TSC) came through on May 15, 1995. https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter5.html

5/15/2002 Congress enacted the “Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002,” which is now known as the No FEAR Act. https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/FY20_NoFEAR_report.pdf

5/15/2006 In 2003, SSA assumed another Medicare-related responsibility when the Medicare Prescription Drug (Part D). Initial enrollment for Part D ended May 15, 2006. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/ssb-v70n3.pdf

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

**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · 2d

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/14/1960 A measure was signed by President Eisenhower permitting an individual who was paying the medical expense of dependent parents 65 or over to disregard the usual limitation that only amounts in excess of 3% of adjusted gross income could be deducted.
https://www.taxnotes.com/lr/resolve/tax-notes-today-federal/crs-report-on-history-and-rationale-of-medical-expense-deduction/10g5h#:~:text=%5B23%5D%20With%20passage%20on%20May,parents%20of%20the%20taxpayer%27s%20spouse.

5/14/1965 Died on this day in 1965, Madame Secretary Francis Perkins. "I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen." https://www.ssa.gov/history/fperkins.html

5/14/1966 The Johnson Administration published in the Federal Register, proposed regulations incorporating the condition of participation in Medicare for home health agencies and extended care facilities.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/lbjmedicare4.html

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

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**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · 4d *

4d *

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/13/1935 The Social Security Bill (H.R. 7260) was reported out by the Senate Finance Committee with amendments, by a vote of 7 to 6.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html

5/13/1953 Oscar Pogge announced his resignation as the Director of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance, effective May 22. I couldn't find a comprehensive biography. Here he is mentioned, https://www.ssa.gov/history/oasis/oasisnews3.html. Milton Freedman speaks of him in his Oral History interview,https://www.ssa.gov/history/miltforal.html, and here is one of his writings, https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v15n1/v15n1p3.pdf

5/13/2002 The President Signs H.R. 2646 Into Law "Farm Security And Rural Investment Act Of 2002"
https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

5/13/2005 President George W. Bush discusses Social Security with National Association of Realtors.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/gwbushstmts5b.html#051305

5/13/2011 Social Security Board of Trustees long-range projections estimate that the Trust Funds will be depleted in 2036, one year earlier than predicted in last year's report. https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2011/II_D_project.html#114863

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

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**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · 5d

On this Day in Social Security History:

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
Center For Plain Language

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**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · 6d

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/11/1933 Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas introduced three bills designed to set up a Federal Credit Union system.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v18n11/v18n11p3.pdf

5/11/1944 Senators Wagner and Wheeler in the Senate, and 4 days later Representative Crosser in the House, introduced the Railroad Social Insurance Bill.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v9n12/v9n12p23.pdf

5/11/1944 An amendment to Veterans Regulation Number I (a) authorized that pensionable status existed for persons and dependents of persons who incurred disability or death in line of duty prior to final induction.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/Article/1727086/75-years-of-the-gi-bill-how-transformative-its-been/

5/11/1955 The President signed Public Law 33; increasing the retirement pay of certain members of former Lighthouse Service.
https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal55-1353290#_=_

5/11/1999 The Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Social Security Subcommittee notified SSA that its Fiscal Year 2000 Performance Plan ranks among the highest in government with a score of 84.5 out of a possible 100.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter1.html

5/12/2023 The COVID-19 pandemic Public Health Emergency ended.

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

**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · May 10 *

May 10 *

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/10/1937 The Social Security Board joined with a Special Committee on Social Security of the Senate Finance Committee in the appointment of an Advisory Council on Social Security.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

5/10/1986 The Greenspan Commission releases the reports: "The Private Pension System and Its Role in Providing Economic Security."
More on the Greenspan Commission. https://www.ssa.gov/history/greenspn.html

5/10/1988 Robert M. Ball Presents "Social Security: Today and Tomorrow" at the AARP Biennial Convention, Detroit, MI. His book is available for borrow at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/embed/socialsecurityto0000ball

5/10/1995 In her Commissioner’s Broadcast, Commissioner Chater said, “The memorial garden [which would be dedicated May 19, 1995] is just one way in which we can remember and honor the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing.“
https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/June1995.pdf

5/10/2006 President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13402 establishing the President's Identity Theft Task Force.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html

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

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**vagabondageautourdesoi** @vagabondageautourdesoi@mastodon.social · May 10

May 10

#bookstodon
@EditionsGrasset @NetGalleyFrance #JudithPerrignon et #roosevelt
L’autre Amérique raconte un pays, celui qu’on aime et qu’on admire, en opposition à cette Amérique blanche, riche et au-dessus des lois celle de Trump , celle du #NewDeal
#présentation ici https://vagabondageautourdesoi.com/2025/05/05/judith-perrignon-lautre-amerique/

**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · May 9

May 9

On this Day in Social Security History:

"From the outset, President Roosevelt and the majority of his advisors in the Committee on Economic Security opposed using general revenues to finance the new Social Security program...
May 9, 1977, [in a] message to Congress in which he [President Carter] recommended using general revenue financing...." 2010.https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/ssb-v70n3.pdf
President Carter's Recommendations: https://www.ssa.gov/history/notchfile3.html

5/9/2011 SSA announced the agency is publishing data on its Open Government website www.socialsecurity.gov/open.
https://www.eac.gov/about/help_america_vote_act.aspx

5/9/2013 Executive Order: "Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information," establishes a framework to help institutionalize the principles of effective information management at each stage of the information's life cycle to promote interoperability and openness.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/open

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

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**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · May 9 *

May 9 *

On this Day in Social Security History:

Excerpted from: Never A Finished Thing: A Brief Biography of Arthur Joseph Altmeyer--The Man FDR Called "Mr. Social Security"
https://www.ssa.gov/history/bioaja.html

Arthur J. Altmeyer became one of the seminal figures of the Social Security program in America. He was:
- part of the President's Committee on Economic Security that drafted the original legislative proposal in 1934.
- a member of the three-person Social Security Board created to run the new program, and
- either Chairman of the Board or Commissioner for Social Security from 1937-1953.

"This enormously able man was a guide and inspiration to all of us who knew him well, and his shaping of the social security program and its administration entitle him to high rank among the outstanding public servants of all time."
-- Bob Ball--1972

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

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**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · May 9

May 9

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/8/1891 Born on this day, Arthur J. Altmeyer one of the seminal figures of the Social Security program in America.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/bioaja.html

5/8/1938 Frank Bane, Executive Director, Social Security Board, gave the speech "A New American Reality." https://www.ssa.gov/history/bane838.html

5/8/1936 Rosenberg, appointed Regional Director Region II (New York) .
https://www.ssa.gov/history/annar.html

5/8/1948 The Advisory Council on Social Security presented its second report. https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/48advise2a.html

5/8/1961 The Public Welfare Amendments of 1961 were enacted amending public assistance Titles of the Social Security Act.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v24n7/v24n7p18.pdf

5/8/1962 Regional IX Managers Conference hold a conference featuring Jimmy Durante.

5/8/2000 SSA issued revised Social Security and SSI disability regulations. https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter4.html

5/8/2002 The President Signs H.R. 2646 into Law "Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002"
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_051302.html

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

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**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · May 7

May 7

#History #Unemployment #NewDeal

Born on this day, the Works Progress Administration established through Executive Order No. 7034 issued on May 6, 1935. https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/069.html

The attached video excerpt from NBC News Special - Nothing to Fear: The Legacy of FDR (1/24/1982) talks about how the WPA played a crucial role in advancing American culture during the 1930s. While it was primarily an employment and infrastructure program, it also had a significant impact on the arts and humanities.

Thank you to the @internetarchive for preserving this important part of our cultural heritage! Full video: https://archive.org/details/youtube-SHSAEEW9CEs

**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · May 7

May 7

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/6/1935 The Railroad Retirement Act of 1934 was declared unconstitutional.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v68n2/v68n2p41.html

5/6/1935 The President signed an Executive Order creating the Works Progress Administration.
https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/069.html

5/6/1960 Senator McNamara of Michigan, introduced Senate bill 3503 for himself and 18 others, which provided for a special retirement test to determine eligibility for health insurance benefits, including hospital and nursing home care, outpatient diagnostic services, and the cost of expensive drugs.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v23n11/v23n11p3.pdf

5/6/1981 John A. Svahn became the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/svahn.html

5/6/1992 The Mid-Atlantic Program Service Center (PSC) celebrated its 50th anniversary. Janice Warden, Deputy Commissioner for Operations, was the keynote speaker. Attendees enjoyed musical, dramatic and comedic presentations by employees and renditions by a choir from a local grammar school and by the PSC choir.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/oasis/june1992.pdf

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**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · May 5

May 5

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/5/1942 Arthur J. Altmeyer, Chairman of the Social Security Board, was appointed Executive Director of the War Manpower Commission.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/collectalt.html

5/5/1965 Lyndon B. Johnson presented a Social Security check to the 20-millionth beneficiary.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v28n8/v28n8p1.pdf

5/5/1981 Herbert R. Doggette, Jr. completed his second term as Social Security's Acting Commissioner.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/doggette.html

5/5/1999 The first 450 resettled refugees from Kosovo landed at McGuire Air Force base in New Jersey.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter5.html

5/5/1998 Commissioner Apfel named Yvette S. Jackson to the position of Deputy Commissioner for Finance, Assessment and Management.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter2.html

5/5/2009 Statement of Michael Gallagher, before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, concerning the GSA's use of funds to construct a new data center using 500 million dollars appropriated to us in the Recovery Act.
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/testimony_050509.html

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

**Preston MacDougall** @ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science · May 5

**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · May 4

May 4

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/4/1960 Secretary Flemming presented President Eisenhower's proposal for a Federal-State program of protection against the cost of illness for low income people aged 65 and over. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/special-message-the-congress-the-nations-health-program

5/4/1964 The Annex Building at Woodlawn began to be occupied.
https://youtu.be/0DcONox_NJQ

5/4/1965 Administrative Strategy Committee was established and recommended that the Administration, "actively plan for and if feasible adopt..." - https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/lbjdib2.html

5/4/1980 DHEW became the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/common-thread-service

5/4/1988 President Clinton proclaimed May 1998 as Older Americans Month.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/clntstmts.html#050498

5/4/1991 Demonstration projects in at least three teleservice centers.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ghwbushevents.html

5/4/1991 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 requires SSA to restore telephone access to local Social Security offices by this date.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/3209

5/4/2005 President George W. Bush discusses Social Security at Latino Coalition Conference.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/gwbushstmts5b.html#050405

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**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · May 3

May 3

On this Day in Social Security History:

5/3/1803 The first permanent Marine hospital was authorized to be built in Boston, Massachusetts.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/seamen.html
More: https://www.nps.gov/places/old-marine-hospital.htm

5/3/1946 The Taft-Smith-Ball Bill, S. 2143, authorizing grants to States for medical care to the poor was introduced as an alternative to the administration bill.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/corningchap3.html

5/3/2000 Lillie Steinhorn, at the time longest-serving federal government worker in history, retired. She began her Government career April the 28th 1935 as a GS-1 Clerk-typist with the Civil Service Commission.
Jewish Women's Archive https://jwa.org/thisweek/may/03/2000/lillie-steinhorn

5/3/2005 President Bush Discusses Strengthening Social Security at the Nissan North America Manufacturing Plant in Canton, Mississippi. https://www.ssa.gov/history/gwbushstmts5b.html#050305

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**GuyC59** @GuyC59@vivaldi.net · May 2

May 2

On this Day in Social Security History: