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Coming on duty on April 16, 1937, in Washington, D.C., was Mercia Laton Kahn. Although her title was adjudicator, she never adjudicated a claim. “I was handed the thin Social Security Act the first day,” Mercia recalled, “and 30 minutes later was told there was no more time for training..."
From: SSA 'Pioneers' Recall the Early Days Oasis, July/August 1985. https://www.ssa.gov/history/oasis/julyaugust1985.pdf

4/16/1996 Approaching the one-year anniversary, several survivors and family members of victims laid a wreath at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/June1995.pdf

4/16/1998 Federal Register announcement of one of two, university-based, multi-disciplinary centers were chosen for the Retirement Research Consortium (RRC).
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-66/pdf/STATUTE-66-Pg62.pdf

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"The world does not owe a man a
living, I grant you, but as surely as a God rules the heavens,
it does owe him a chance to make a living! [Applause.)"
Congressional Record 4/15/1949 https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/h415.pdf

4/15/1965 When H.R. 6675 reached the Senate, the risk to the bill came from liberals eager to expand coverage by adding amendments to the bill. https://congresscenters.org/great-society-congress/exhibits/show/legislation/item/196

4/15/1974 SSA implemented evidence requirements (age, identity, and citizenship/alien status) for applicants for an original SSN who are foreign-born, or are U.S.-born and age 18 or older. http://ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html

4/15/1996 The 1994 - 1996 Social Security Advisory Board held its final public meeting in Washington, D.C.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/adcouncil/index.html
 
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Social Security History: In the Beginning - Chapter One Economic Conditions

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The accompanying video is narrated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and gives an overview of the economic conditions existing prior to the enactment of the social Security Act, August 14, 1935.

FDR begins:

“Long before the economic blight of the depression descended on the nation, millions of our people were living in wastelands of want and fear. Long before 1929, men and women, too old and infirm to work either depended on those who had but little to share, or spent their remaining years within the walls of a poorhouse.” - FDR’s radio address on 3rd anniversary of Social Security Act, August 15, 1938. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/utterancesfdr.html

The video quotes extensively from SSA Historian, Dr. Abe Bortz’s Lecture on the History of Social Security (https://www.ssa.gov/history/bortz.html), including:
“...extraordinary economic and social problems for 20th century Americans.

I hope you find this interesting.

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4/14/1948 President Truman’s veto of H.R. 5052 was overridden in the House of Representatives. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v11n7/v11n7p3.pdf

4/14/1992 The United States Government and the government of Ireland reach an Administrative Arrangement for the Implementation of the Agreement on Social Security. https://www.ssa.gov/international/Agreement_Texts/irish.html

4/14/1996 As required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) (Public Law 104-191), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adopted the “Privacy Rule”). https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/hallex/TS/tsi-2-49.htm
HHS Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html
SSA's HIPAA Programs https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/hipaa-cefactsheet.htm

4/14/1996 Memorandum from Jack S. Futterman, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Administration to Mr. Robert M. Bal. https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/lbjexternal6.html

4/14/2021 In response to the Covid pandemic, SSA began allowing individuals to fax applications, a practice not previously allowed.
More: Electronic Records Express https://www.ssa.gov/ere/

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4/13/1944 Elizabeth A. Mulholland assumed the position of Personnel Director of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance. In 1944, during the height of World War II, the Social Security Administration (SSA) employed approximately 20,000 people. As of September 30, 2023, the Agency has grown to employ 60,733.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/2024/index.html

4/13/1948 Workmen's compensation legislation became applicable nationwide, with Mississippi's enactment of such a law.
More: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1888620/

4/13/1949 The New York Disability Benefits Law was enacted with benefit payments effective on July 1, 1950.
More: https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4950&context=lawreview

4/13/1995 President Clinton appointed the Commissioner of Social Security to be a member of his Domestic Policy Council.

4/13/2018 The President signed H.R. 4547, The Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018 into law. https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_042418.html

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4/12/1937 The Wagner Labor Act was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/national-labor-relations-act

4/12/1942 An agreement became effective between the United States and Canada for coordinating and integrating the unemployment insurance. https://maint.loc.gov/law/help/us-treaties/bevans/b-ca-ust000006-0257.pdf

4/12/1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt passed away on April 12, 1945.
More at Roosevelt House Hunter College:https://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/exhibits/death-president-roosevelt-april-12-1945/

4/12/1987 Ewan Clague died.
More Harry S. Truman Library & Museum: https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/oral-histories/clague

4/12/1994 The 1994 Trustees Report showed the date of the combined OASDI Trust Funds exhaustion as 2029. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/historical/1994.pdf

4/12/1998 Commissioner Apfel appointed Dr. Jane L. Ross as Deputy Commissioner for Policy. https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter2.html
In Memoriam: https://www.nasi.org/discussion/in-memoriam-jane-ross/

4/12/2022 by this date, Executive Order 14058, "Transforming Customer Experience..." required SSA to provide OMB a report reforms to in-person appearance requirements. https://www.ssa.gov/budget/assets/materials/2023/FY23-JEAC.pdf

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"The first step may be to finally recognize that “running government like a business” has always been a red herring. The government is not a business — it is the thing that makes business possible. Unregulated markets frequently fail to produce good businesses so long as we define “good” as beneficial to their customers. And unregulated businesses, as we’ve recently been forced to witness, are even worse at producing good government. As the economist Mariana Mazzucato has long argued, the libertarian CEO types now running Washington are willfully ignorant of just how dependent their industries are on the backbone of public services like roads, telecoms, courts and publicly-funded research — services they have enjoyed largely for free since financial liberalization and business tax cuts have allowed them to shelter the vast majority of their profits.

Step two is much harder: articulating some positive idea of an activist government in the marketplace. For Doctorow, as for many others, this begins with “a very aggressive antitrust agenda” aimed at breaking up the monopolies that have become powerful enough to capture — and try to replace — the federal government under Trump. “You cannot have a referee who is weaker than the players on the field,” he told me.

“Anti-government nihilism cannot be countered without a defense of the government’s role in daily life.”

But there are other, more constructive roles the government could play. Doctorow suggested a federal jobs guarantee that would put a meaningful floor on the value of labor. Or a database of publicly funded, patent-free research, which would compel corporations to support interoperability — what Mazzucato has called, in the context of AI, a “decentralized innovation ecosystem that serves the public good.”"

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4/5/1935 The US House of Representatives began debate on The Social Security Act of 1935.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/senate35.html

4/5/1944 The United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, held that money paid to a widow, after the death of her wage-earner husband pursuant to a back-pay award by the National Labor Relations Board entered after the wage earner's death, did not constitute wages as defined in the original Social Security Act because it was not remuneration for employment.
More on, Social Security and Vulnerable Groups—Policy Options to Aid Widows: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46182

4/5/1948, President Truman vetoed H.R. 5052, a bill to exclude vendors of newspapers and magazines from social security coverage.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v11n7/v11n7p3.pdf
 
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Social Security History, Women's History Month Edition Five:

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In honor of Women's History Month, here is compilation of pioneering women in the history of the Social Security in America.

For more information and profiles of these and other notable individuals, please visit Social Security Pioneers: Women https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/social-security-pioneers-women-guy-clinch

Edition One https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-ssahistgwc-activity-7304145264494202881-jgP9/ featured an expanded profile of Frances Perkins, Labor Secretary during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration and the driving force behind many of the progressive reforms underpinning America's post war success.

Edition Two: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-ssahistgwc-activity-7306659783049134080-91cU/

Edition Three: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-ssahistgwc-activity-7308871625263771649-EQok/

Edition Four - Shirtwaist Factory Fire: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-wearenotgoingback-activity-7310303274081923072-TrVe/

Edition Five:
Martha A. McSteen (1923 - 1983)
Margaret M. Heckler (1931 - 2018)
Donna E. Shalala (1941 - )
Jane L. Ross (1942 - 2024)
Dorcas R. Hardy (1946 - 2019)Gwendolyn S. King (1940- )
Shirley Sears Chater (1932 - )
Jo Anne B. Barnhart (1950 - )
Yvette S. Jackson

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