Social Security Act

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.

Example Sentences

Title II of the Social Security Act outlined the benefits to be paid.

From The Daily Beast

However, in spite of a Democratic majority, Roosevelt feared that that health care would sink the broader Social Security Act.

From The Daily Beast