Social Security Act

American  

noun

U.S. Government.

1. a law passed in 1935 providing old-age retirement insurance, a federal-state program of unemployment compensation, and federal grants for state welfare programs.

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Example Sentences

Among the 26,000 or so people buried at the cemetery is Griffith Dickenson Compton, considered the founder of the city; Francis Townsend, who inspired the Social Security Act of 1935; and Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter, a founding member of the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party.

From Los Angeles Times

FDR saw Social Security as protection against ‘the hazards and vicissitudes of life,’ as he put it in signing the Social Security Act 90 years ago this week.

From Los Angeles Times

These staggering numbers, along with the realities of the Great Depression, led to President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act of 1935 into law.

From Salon

He claimed to have reviewed the 1935 congressional hearings on the pending Social Security Act and “never found the word ‘retirement’ in any of the early beginnings of the construction of Social Security.”

From Los Angeles Times

While insurance was kept out of the final draft of what would become the 1935 Social Security Act, due to opposition from the American Medical Association, Parran’s advocacy won an increase federal funding for state and local health departments.

From Salon