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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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" Resolved, That the General Court of Massachusetts favors the immediate enactment by Congress of suitable legislation creating a national compulsory unemployment-insurance..." F.W. Cook, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the US House of Representatives. https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/h416.pdf

3/27/1960 (March 27 - April 2, 1960) The sixth White House Conference on Children and Youth was held.
More: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED078896.pdf

3/27/1969 (March 27 & May 21, 1969) President Nixon signed the Reorganization Act. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-establishing-common-regional-boundaries-for-agencies-providing-social-and

3/27/1891 SSA awarded a commu­nications terminal replacement contract to the Paradyne Corp. of Largo, Florida. See: The Paradyne Affair (Pg. 126) - https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/ota86.pdf

3/27/2006 SSA published its Disability Service Improvement initiative. https://s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/cg-778536a2-e58c-44f1-9173-29749804ec54/uploads/2023/12/2006-HearingProcess_2006.pdf
 
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2/20/1935 The Senate Committee on Finance completed hearings on the "Economic Security Bill" More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html and https://www.ssa.gov/history/ret.html

2/20/1946 The Employment Act of 1946 was enacted to declare a continuing national policy on employment, production, and purchasing power. More: https://lnkd.in/eZ5hkAsU

2/20/1947 Arthur J. Altmeyer was elected Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the International Refugee Organization. More: https://cdn.un.org/unyearbook/yun/chapter_pdf/1946-47YUN/1946-47_P2_SEC8.pdf

2/20/1953 The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee set up a special subcommittee to handle Social Security bills. https://www.ssa.gov/history/1949radiodebate.html

2/20/1961 JFK submitted draft proposals to Congress for improvements in old-age, survivors and disability insurance programs. More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/jfkstmts.html#letter

2/20/1990 The Supreme Court held in Sullivan vs Zebley that substantial parts of the SSI are inconsistent with the Social Security Act. More Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 3, 2010, pg. 60: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/ssb-v70n3.pdf

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2/15/1909 President Theodore Roosevelt sent a message to Congress RE: a Federal Children's Bureau. He said:
“It is not only discreditable to us as a people that there is now no recognized and authoritative source of information ... its great corrective power, can only be aroused by full knowledge of the facts.” More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/childb2.html

2/15/1933 A mentally ill, unemployed brick layer named Giuseppe Zangara shouts "Too many people are starving!" and fires a gun at America’s president-elect, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. https://youtu.be/ceguODYK90A

2/15/1973 Robert M. Ball, Commissioner of Social Security 1962 to 1973, Speech before the National Organizations Conference--February 15, 1973. More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/bobball.html

2/15/2000 SSA launched its Electronic Newsletter (e-News).
More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter7.html

2/15/2012, SSA resumed targeted mailings of the Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statement (PEBES).
More: Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 74, No. 2, 2014 https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v74n2/ssb-v74n2.pdf

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