Bureau of Employment Security
The Bureau of Employment Security, with its unemployment compensation and employment service function, was transferred from the Federal Security Agency to the Department of Labor...
Federal Security Agency
The Social Security Board was transferred to the Federal Security Agency by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1939 and the Board’s functions were to be...
The Social Security Board
The Social Security Board was responsible for administration of the original Social Security Act except for parts 1, 2, 3, and 5 of Title V...
Original Social Security Act
The original Social Security Act is P.L. 74-271 (49 Stat. 620), approved August 14, 1935. The Social Security Act (SSAct) has been amended significantly since...
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund
With respect to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (hereinafter in this title called the “Trust...
Disability Insurance Trust Fund
There is hereby created on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the “Federal Disability Insurance...
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund
Sec. 201. [42 U.S.C. 401] (a) There is hereby created on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the...
The Social Security Act
Title I of the Social Security Act is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. The Office of Family Assistance administers benefit payments...
Provide for general welfare
To provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision...
Assistance to aged needy individuals
Sec. 1. [42 U.S.C. 301] For the purpose of enabling each State, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, to furnish financial assistance...