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Even though few Americans alive today – even including those that qualify for benefits – likely do not remember a time before social security, the United States did not set up an official program with which to deal with the growing problem of elderly support until the mid 1930s during the worst of the depression. [...]

Early one afternoon, the late summer of 1935, President Roosevelt attached his name to the signal legislation which would found the Social Security Administration and so begin what would arguably become the proudest link in the societal safety net which helps hold our country together. In the middle of the depression, during deprivations affecting ordinary [...]

From the ashes of the Great Depression, when starvation and homelessness ran rampant throughout this country and even the most staunch believers in the American form of capitalism truly wondered whether or not our country would make it through the economic carnage, one decidedly less publicized piece of legislation which sailed through the Congress thanks [...]

Along the course of daily life, ordinary Americans will throw around the phrase “social security disability” with little to no recognition as to what the government actually means by that terminology. From anecdotal accounts given to the authors of this author, the grand majority of prospective applicants for government benefits remain unsure about whether or [...]

While some studies have estimated that as many as one third of Americans over the age of eighteen have lost – or, in any event, would be unable to find with any degree of success – a physical copy of their Social Security card, most adults honestly seem to find it easy enough to simply [...]