Analysis of the Social Security System: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, July 24 and 25, November 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, and 27, 1953.A Report to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, on Extension of Old Age and Survivors Insurance to Additional Groups of Current Workers. Consultants on Social SecurityOld Age and Survivors Insurance System and the Federal Grants-in-Aid Programs for Public Assistance: Message from the President of the United States Transmitting Recommendations Relating to the Old Age and Survivors Insurance System and the Federal Grant-in-Aid Programs for Public Assistance, January 14, 1954.Social Security Act Amendments of 1954: Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means Pursuant to H.R. 7199, a Bill To Amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code so as To Extend Coverage under the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Program . . . , April 1-15, 1954.Social Security Amendments of 1954: Report of the Committee on Ways and Means To Accompany H.R. 9366, a Bill To Amend the Social Security Act . . . , May 28, 1954.Social Security Amendments of 1954: Hearings before the Committee on Finance on H.R. 9366, an Act To Amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code so as To Extend Coverage under the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Program . . . , June 24, 28, 29, 30, July 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1954.

1954 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-367
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Public Assistance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Internal Revenue ◽  
Insurance Program ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Security Act ◽  
Aid Programs

Male Retirement Behavior in the United States, 1930–1950

1991 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald O. Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Pension ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
The Social ◽  
Retirement Behavior ◽  
Old Age Assistance ◽  
Social Security Act

Explanations for the recent decline in the labor force attachment of males 65 years of age and older include the introduction of Old Age and Survivors Insurance and the growth in private pension programs. Neither hypothesis can explain the sizable decline that occurred between 1930 and 1950, when aggregate social security and private pension payments were small. Estimates from pooled state aggregate data indicate that the means-tested Old Age Assistance program established by the Social Security Act of 1935 significantly increased retirement activity in this period, particularly among low-income individuals.

The Social Security Program of the United States

1936 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Social Security Program ◽  
Unemployment Compensation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Old Age Assistance ◽  
State Unemployment

The Federal Social Security Act, which may be regarded as the central core of the social security program, is an omnibus act, containing the following features: (1) a national, compulsory oldage insurance plan, covering all employees except certain exempted groups; (2) two measures designed to stimulate the states to enact state unemployment compensation laws, namely, (a) a uniform nation-wide tax upon employers, against which a credit is allowable for contributions made to approved state unemployment compensation plans, and (b) subsidies to the states to cover the administrative costs of unemployment compensation; and (3) grants-in-aid to the states for old-age assistance, pensions for the blind, aid to dependent children, child welfare, maternal and child health, vocational rehabilitation, and public health activities. It is estimated that each of the two forms of social insurance will apply to about 25,000,000 wage-earners, and, when the maximum rates become effective in 1949, will involve annual contributions of nearly $3,000,000,000. This amount is approximately equal to the normal annual expenditure of the federal government prior to 1930. In addition, the grants-in-aid to the states were estimated by the actuaries of the President's Committee on Economic Security to reach a total of a half-billion dollars annually within a few years.History of the Federal ActWhen, in a message to Congress on June 8, 1934, the President indicated that he would submit a program of social insurance for consideration at the following session, the Wagner-Lewis unemployment insurance bill and the Dill-Connery old-age assistance bill were pending. Shortly afterwards, the President, by executive order, created the Committee on Economic Security, consisting of the Secretaries of Labor (chairman), Treasury, and Agriculture, the Attorney-General, and the Federal Emergency Relief Administrator. This committee appointed Professor Edwin E. Witte, of the University of Wisconsin, as executive director, and proceeded to build up a staff of actuaries and experts to study the whole problem of economic insecurity, and to prepare recommendations.

A New Deal for the Alien

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cybelle Fox
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Aid To Dependent Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
Disparate Treatment ◽  
Old Age Assistance ◽  
Social Security Act ◽  
European Immigrants

This chapter focuses on the Social Security Act and the disparate treatment of blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants in the administration of Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Aid to Dependent Children, and Old Age Assistance. Though framed as legislation that would help the “average citizen,” scholars have shown that the Social Security Act in fact excluded the vast majority of blacks from the most generous social insurance programs, relegating them to meager, decentralized, and demeaning means-tested programs. European immigrants, by contrast, benefited from many of the provisions of the Social Security Act, and in at least some respects, they benefited more than even native-born whites. The net result of these policies was that blacks were disproportionately shunted into categorical assistance programs with low benefit levels, European immigrants were disproportionately covered under social insurance regardless of citizenship, and Mexicans were often shut out altogether.

Book Review: Old Age and the Social Security Act

The Family ◽  
1937 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 289-289
Author(s):  
Francis H. Mclean
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Old Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Security Act

Michigan Court Enjoins Statute Limiting Abortions Covered by Medicaid

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-75
Author(s):  
A.S.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Medicaid Program ◽  
Planned Parenthood ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Security Act ◽  
Federal Appropriations

In Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Michigan v. Engler (73 F.3d 634 (6th Cir. 1996)), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that § 400.109(a) of the Social Welfare Act of Michigan (Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 400.109(a) (1994)) impermissibly conflicts with the Medicaid Act (Social Security Act tit. XIX, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396 et seq. (1988)) as modified by the 1994 Hyde Amendment (Pub. L. No. 103-112, § 509, 107 Stat. 1082-1113 (1994)), insofar as the § 400.109(a) only provides state funding for abortions necessary to save the life of a mother, and not for abortions resulting from rape or incest. The court held that the Hyde Amendment defines medically necessary abortions that must be funded by states participating in the federal Medicaid program, and that the amendment is not merely a federal appropriations bill.

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