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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.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html

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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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8/4/1934 Professor Ed Witte of the University of Wisconsin wrapped up his role as Executive Director of its staff of President Roosevelt’s cabinet Committee on Economic Security. The Committee went out of existence when the Social Security bill was signed August 14, 1935.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/jdb4.html
Short essay on Professor Witte from “The Beginnings of Social Security,” by Wilbur J. Cohen: “… Ed Witte was not a man who tried to impress anyone. He didn't use five syllable words or fancy concepts so fashionable today in the social sciences. He wasn't able to use mathematical formulas, and he did not invent any new vocabulary to describe prevailing ideas or to theorize about existing institutions. He didn't try to win an argument or to hurt people by showing how much more he knew or how much more he had accomplished than someone else. But he was tenacious in clinging to opinions and principles in which he believed. He was a rare spirit and was admired by his students and colleagues…” https://www.ssa.gov/history/cohenwitte.html

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8/3/1937 Employment service expansion to meet the needs of the unemployment compensation program was furthered by the first grant approved under the Social Security Act to West Virginia.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v1n4/v1n4p28.pdf

8/3/1939 Arthur J. Altmeyer was reappointed for a six-year term as the Chairman of the Social Security Board.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/altmeyer2.html

8/3/1944 "How Distant is the Goal of Social Security? Speech by A. J. Altmeyer, Chairman, Social Security Board, at National Convention of Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles, Cincinnati, Ohio.
“In these days when everyone is preoccupied with the dramatic news from the war fronts, and when political crises in the enemy camp vie for attention with nine billion dollar international banks, it is gratifying to be asked to speak on the more human, or perhaps I should say humane, subject of social security which constitutes one of our chief hopes for a better world …”
https://www.ssa.gov/history/aja844.html

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8/2/1946 The Senate Committee on Finance was directed to make a complete study of the Social Security program and provisions for its extension.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v9n9/v9n9p2.pdf

8/2/2010 Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, opened in St. Louis, Missouri the Agency's fifth National Hearing Center (NHC).
https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/releases/2010/#8-2010-1

8/2/2010 The Committee on Ways and Means reported to the House H.R. 12580, the Social Security Amendments of 1960. The bill established a new Title XVI of the Social Security Act, providing Federal grants to the States to help pay the costs of medical services for aged people not on Public Assistance but unable to meet their medical expenses.

8/2/2011 The President signed S. 365, the Budget Control Act of 2011 into law shortly after the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 74-26. The House passed the bill on August 1, 2011 by a vote of 269-161. The law generally establishes limits on government-wide discretionary spending through 2021.
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_080211.html

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7/30/1947 Under Public Law No. 131, certain aged recipients of assistance could continue, until July 1, 1949, to work for wages on a farm or care for the sick without having such wages jeopardize their assistance payment.
Social Security Bulletin Vol. 10, No. 9 (released September 1947) page 14 (bottom) https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v10n9/v10n9p13.pdf

7/30/1965 Providing Better Service to The Public: Commissioner Ball approved the establishment of a branch office facilities program.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/lbjoper2.html

7/30/1965 President Johnson signed H.R. 6675 - Medicare (as part of the Social Security Amendments of 1965) - to provide health insurance for the elderly. It was signed in Independence, Missouri, in the presence of Harry S. Truman who opened the fight for such legislation in a message to Congress in 1945.

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7/29/1941 The Social Security Board approved a draft copy of a reciprocal arrangement with the Dominion of Canada for handling unemployment contributions and benefits and also procedures for the transmittal of the agreement and the official adoption by both Governments.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/ces/cesbookapen8.html

7/29/1948 The President approved Public Law 813 which transferred the administration of the Federal Credit Union Act ... within the Social Security Administration.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v18n8/v18n8p28.pdf (Page 2)

7/29/1999 Prepared Statement by Kenneth S. Apfel Commissioner of Social Security before The House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Subject - Information Technology Enhancements. "Throughout its almost 65-year history, Social Security has made a difference in the lives of Americans, and we have a responsibility to be careful stewards of our programs both now and as we move into the 21st century...”
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/testimony_072999.html

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7/28/1931 "France has experimented to a considerable degree with the use of a stamp method for the collection of social insurance contributions ...
To remove this cause of error, the amending act of July 28, 1931, introduced a stamp in two parts, one surcharged "V " (vieillesse) for the old-age
card, the other part was surcharged "M " (maladie) for the sickness insurance card."
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v2n6/v2n6p18.pdf

7/28/1965 Medicare: The final bill was approved in the US House of representatives and Senate, "Thus, America finally joined the many other nations that provided health insurance protection for the aged--in Winston Churchill's phrase, bringing 'the magic of averages to the rescue of millions'." https://www.ssa.gov/history/corningchap4.html

7/28/1999 President Clinton submitted James G. Huse, Jr.’s nomination to the Senate to become the second IG of SSA. On November 10, 1999, the Senate confirmed Mr. Huse’s nomination and on November 22, 1999, in a ceremony in Baltimore, Maryland, Mr. Huse was sworn into office. https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter6.html

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7/27/1934 "...For a large proportion of our population then there is a constant dread of the future. This dread itself is one of the serious features in society, respon­sible as it is for much of the mental disorder which is filling our hospitals and institutions at an alarming rate today ..." - Seward C. Simons, Executive Director, Pasadena Community Chest and Council of Social Agencies, Institute of Public Affairs, University of California at Los Angeles, with the co­operation of the Pacific Southwest Academy and the Pacific Sociological Society.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/ces/ces6simons.html

7/27/1939 Unemployment benefits were suspended in South Dakota. The State's employment service offices were closed because the State legislature failed to appropriate the necessary amount of State funds for their operation.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/Downey%20PDFs/Social%20Security%20Amendments%20of%201939.pdf

7/27/1960 The Republican National Convention endorsed a platform plank which supported Federal-State grant programs to improve health services for the aged.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1960

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7/29/1941 The organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, while the forces were in the service of the Armed Forces of the United States pursuant to the military order of the President became covered by the term “World War II veteran.” https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title08/0812.htm

7/26/1965 The Social Security Administration was reorganized to accommodate the administration of the new health insurance program (Medicare) and at the same tine continue its standards of service to the public. https://www.ssa.gov/history/65reorg.html and https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/lbjorg2.html

7/26/1990 On this landmark day, President George H. W. Bush signed into law the, Americans With Disability Act of 1990 (P. L. 101-336). https://www.ada.gov/ada_intro.htm

7/26/1999 Commissioner Apfel announced in SSA News Bytes that the Office of Communications had received two Emmy Awards from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the public service ad-The Future of Social Security.

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7/25/1947 An act was approved terminating certain emergency and war powers, including amendments to Title II of the Social Security Act.
https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title02/0217.htm

7/25/1952 Social Security Act Amendments of 1952 provides old-age and survivors insurance wage credits of $160 for each month of service in the active
military or naval service of the United States from July 25, 1947, through December 31, 1953.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v15n9/v15n9p3.pdf

7/25/1956 The original GI Bill expired. More see Military Veteran’s and Social Security - 2010 update by Anya Olsen and Samantha O’Leary: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v71n2/ssb-v71n2.pdf

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7/24/1934 Dr. Edwin E. Witte accepted the position of Executive Director of the Committee on Economic Security.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/wittepio.html

7/24/1942 The first field office of the War Manpower Commission opened in Baltimore, a critical labor supply area.
https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/211.html

7/24/1958 An agreement was reached between the Railroad Board and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare whereby the Board would make disability freeze determinations for career railroad workers conclusive only for the purpose of determining benefit payments under the railroad retirement program while DHEW would continue to make disability freeze determinations for all Social Security benefit purposes and for purposes of the financial interchange provisions. This compromise proposal was put into effect by an amendment to S. 2020 which was approved on September 6, 1958 (P.L. 85-927).
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v68n2/v68n2p41.html

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7/23/1947 Senate Resolution 141, superseding Senate Resolution 320 (August 2, 1946) gave the United States Senate Committee on Finance authorization and appropriation for investigating the Social Security program. The Committee was authorized to appoint an Advisory Council to assist and advise in the study.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/48advise4.html

7/23/1992 Robert M. Ball, "Social Security 'Notch' Issues", testimony before the Committee on Ways and Means, Sub-Committee on Social Security, United States House of Representatives.
The Commission on the Social Security "Notch" Issue - https://www.ssa.gov/history/notchfile1.html

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7/22/1935 “During his three brief years in the U.S. Senate, Huey Long became one of the most flamboyant and provocative Senators in the nation's history…” On this day his bombast included, “… I was the sole author of a plan known as the share-our-wealth plan. It proposed that none should own too much, and none should own too little. It necessarily required a redistribution of wealth, so that those who had more than they had any business with, should be made to give over to the Government the money and things which the Government would furnish to the people who did not have enough upon which to live. I proposed that plan when I became a member of the United States Senate early in 1932…”
Congressional Record: https://www.ssa.gov/history/longsen.html

7/22/1946 The constitution of the World Health Organization was signed by representatives of 61 nations.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v9n10/v9n10p18.pdf
https://www.who.int/about/governance/constitution

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