Thought I would post this since many are on Social Security... Social Security Administration revises some ID requirements after backlash https://www.mynbc5.com/article/social-security-identity-verification-policy-update/64307325 #SSA #SSDI #SSI #Medicare #Update #News

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3/26/1943 The first disability payment under the Civilian War Benefits Program was made to a civilian defense worker. More: (“The Civilian War Benefits Program: SSA ‘s First Disability Program,” by Larry Dewitt. SSA Historian) https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v60n2/v60n2p68.pdf

3/26/1945 The U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee voted funds for a study of the Social Security Act, with particular reference to old-age and survivor's insurance and related problems of coverage, benefits and taxes. More (“Social Security Act Amendments of 1946,” by Angela J. Murray): https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v9n9/v9n9p2.pdf

3/26/2009 Vice President Joe Biden and Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, announced today that the federal government will send out $250 economic recovery payments to people who receive Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits beginning in early May 2009 and continuing throughout the month. More: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/realitycheck/the_press_office/Vice-President-Biden-Announces-250-Dollar-Recovery-Payments-to-Go-to-Social-Security-and-SSI-Beneficiaries-in-May
 
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The Day the New Deal Was Born, New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire:
On Saturday, March 25, 1911, at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a lethal fire broke out on the factory floor. more than one hundred women and two dozen men. Less than three weeks after the fire, on April 11, 1911, factory co-owners Isaac Harris and Max Blanck were indicted on charges of manslaughter - but when the case went to trial that December, they were found not guilty.

The attached video includes audio from that Triangle Fire 50th Anniversary Commemoration, March 25, 1961. Hear: former Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. In her own voice, you will hear Madame Perkins say,
"I am one of the very few people still alive who not only remember the triangle fire, but who saw it ... that with affection and respect upon those who died on March 25th, 1911, in this great fire. For this we can be thankful, and we can still say, these dead have not died in vain, and we will never forget them."

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The Day the New Deal Was Born, New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Source “OASIS May 1979”: Frances Perkins: Life on her Own Terms https://www.ssa.gov/history/oasis/may1979.pdf
Frances Perkins Center | Her Life: The Woman Behind the New Deal https://lnkd.in/eFsPh4j6
FDR Library https://www.fdrlibrary.org/perkins

3/25/1941 The “OASIS News” published its first issue. OASIS News was the forerunner of the full-fledged, https://www.ssa.gov/history/oasis/oasisarticles.html

3/25/1983 “Finally, in the early morning hours of March 25, the Senate passed H.R. 1900...”
From: “Social Security Amendments of 1983: Legislative History and Summary of Provisions,” https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v46n7/v46n7p3.pdf

3/25/1996 (March 25-27, 1996) A government-wide conference on reinventing government was held in Bethesda, Maryland.

3/25/2004 SSA and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly transmitted to the Congress their proposed plan for transferring responsibility for Medicare-related hearings from SSA to HHS.
 
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3/23/1960 Arthur S. Flemming, in testimony before the Ways and Means Committee.
Background: https://www.ssa.gov/history/corningchap4.html

3/23/1965 In the first step in the legislative processes that would result in passage of Medicare in 1965, the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of The Mills Bill. https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally65.html

“ The Medical Care and Social Security Bill voted out today by the House Committee on Ways and Means is a tremendous step forward for all of our senior citizens …” - President Lyndon B. Johnson, March 23, 1965: https://www.ssa.gov/history/lbjstmts.html#medstate

3/23/1994 Thee Secretary of HHS, Donna E. Shalala, established the 1994-1996 Advisory Council on Social Security. More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/adcouncil/report/preface.htm
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https://president.miami.edu/history/donna-e-shalala/index.html

3/23/2010 President Obama signs the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” and the House passes H.R. 4872, the “Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010” https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_032310.html
 
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"The South and West showed the largest percentage of boys registered ... The second census, on March 22, 1933, enumerated 201,000 persons, 177,483 being males... to this moving stream of transients, it also shared unequally in the burden imposed by them ... that winter..."
From: Statement of Ellen Potter, Trenton, N. J., Representing The National Committee On Care Of Transient And Homeless in testimony before the Senate considering the Economic Security Act (later Social Security) https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/s35potter.pdf

3/22/2000 "The Senior Citizens' Freedom to Work Act of 2000" made a significant step towards eliminating the Retirement Earnings Test (RET) for those beneficiaries at or above Normal Retirement Age (NRA) - The RET still applies to those beneficiaries below NRA – when the Senate, by a vote of 100-0, passed H.R. 5 (with a technical amendment). https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

3/22/2000 Jack S. Futterman, former Social Security executive and one of SSA's early pioneers, died. https://www.ssa.gov/history/futterman.html
 
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ABC News: Acting #SocialSecurity chief now says he won't shut down agency after #DOGE ruling
Leland #Dudek, the acting head of the agency, said in a statement Friday he received "clarifying guidance" (from the judge but duh?) about the judge's temporary restraining order related to DOGE activities.
(PREVIOUSLY HE HAD DISTURBINGLY SAID ..)
He continued, “Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency."
#Trump #Musk #SSA #SSDI #SSI

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-social-security-chief-now-shut-agency-after/story?id=120046608