Social Security Act - wikipedia Social Security Act Social Security Act of 1935 Other short titles SSA Long title The Social Security Act of 1935 Nicknames SSA Enacted by the 74th United States Congress Citations Statutes at Large Pub. L. 74 -- 271, 49 Stat. 620, enacted August 14, 1935 Codification U.S.C. sections created 42 U.S.C. ch. 7 Legislative history Introduced in the House as H.R. 7260 Passed the House on April 19, 1935 ( 372 - 33 ) Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935 Major amendments Social Security Amendments of 1965 Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 United States Supreme Court cases Steward Machine Company v. Davis, Helvering v. Davis President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935. Main article : Social Security ( United States ) The Social Security Act of 1935 Pub. L. 74 -- 271, 49 Stat. 620, now codified as 42 U.S.C. ch. 7, created Social Security in the United States, and is relevant for US labor law. It created a basic right to a pension in old age, and insurance against unemployment. Contents 1 Background 2 Contents 2.1 Title I, old age 2.2 Title II, federal old - age benefits old - age reserve account 2.3 Title III, unemployment 2.4 Title IV, child aid 2.5 Title V, child welfare 2.6 Title VI, public health 2.7 Title VII, Social Security Board Establishment 2.8 Title VIII - Taxes with respect to employment 2.9 Title IX - tax on employers of eight or more 2.10 Title X, blindness 3 Amendments 3.1 Social Security Act Amendments of 1939 3.2 War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944 3.3 Social Security Act Amendments of 1946 3.4 Social Security Act Amendments of 1950 3.5 H.R. 6291 3.6 Social Security Act Amendments of 1952 3.7 Social Security Act Amendments of 1954 3.8 H.R. 9709 3.9 Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963 3.10 Social Security Amendments of 1965 4 Constitutional litigation 4.1 US Supreme Court cases 4.2 Other cases 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References Background In the Second New Deal, the Social Security Act was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. The act laid the groundwork for the modern welfare system in the United States, with its primary focus to provide aid for the elderly, the unemployed, and children. Industrialization and the urbanization in the 19th Century created many new social problems, and transformed ideas of how society and the government should function together because of them. As industry expanded, cities grew quickly to keep up with demand for labor. Tenement houses were built quickly and poorly, cramming new migrants from farms and Southern and Eastern European immigrants into tight and unhealthy spaces. Work spaces were even more unsafe. In 1890, Jacob Riis wrote that `` the quick change of economic conditions in the city... often out paces all plans of relief. '' Contents The Social Security Act has been amended significantly over time, but contains ten major titles. Title I, old age Title I is designed to give money to states to provide assistance to aged individuals APPROPRIATION SECTION 1. For the purpose of enabling each State to furnish financial assistance, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, to aged needy individuals, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1936, the sum of $49,750,000, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year thereafter a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this title. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Social Security Board established by Title VII ( hereinafter referred to as the Board ), State plans for old - age assistance. STATE OLD - AGE ASSISTANCE PLANS SEC. 2. ( a ) A State plan for old - age assistance must ( 1 ) provide that it shall be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State, and, if administered by them, be mandatory upon them ; ( 2 ) provide for financial participation by the State ; ( 3 ) either provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to administer the plan, or provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to supervise the administration of the plan ; ( 4 ) provide for granting to any individual, whose claim for old - age assistance is denied, an opportunity for a fair hearing before such State agency ; ( 5 ) provide such methods of administration ( other than those relating to selection, tenure of office, and compensation of personnel ) as are found by the Board to be necessary for the efficient operation of the plan ; ( 6 ) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Board may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as the Board may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports ; and ( 7 ) provide that, if the State or any of its political subdivisions collects from the estate of any recipient of old - age assistance any amount with respect to old - age assistance furnished him under the plan, one - half of the net amount so collected shall be promptly paid to the United States. Any payment so made shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for the purposes of this title. ( b ) The Board shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified in subsection ( a ), except that it shall not approve any plan which imposes, as a condition of eligibility for old - age assistance under the plan - ( 1 ) An age requirement of more than sixty - five years, except that the plan may impose, effective until January 1, 1940, an age requirement of as much as seventy years ; or ( 2 ) Any residence requirement which excludes any resident of the State who has resided therein five years during the nine years immediately preceding the application for old - age assistance and has resided therein continuously for one year immediately preceding the application ; or ( 3 ) Any citizenship requirement which excludes any citizen of the United States. PAYMENT TO STATES SEC. 3. ( a ) From the sums appropriated therefor, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for old - age assistance, for each quarter, beginning with the quarter commencing July 1, 1935, ( 1 ) an amount, which shall be used exclusively as old - age assistance, equal to one - half of the total of the sums expended during such quarter as old - age assistance under the State plan with respect to each individual who at the time of such expenditure is sixty - five years of age or older and is not an inmate of a public institution, not counting so much of such expenditure with respect to any individual for any month as exceeds $30, and ( 2 ) 5 per centum of such amount, which shall be used for paying the costs of administering the State plan or for old - age assistance, or both, and for no other purpose : Provided, That the State plan, in order to be approved by the Board, need not provide for financial participation before July 1, 1937, by the State, in the case of any State which the Board, upon application by the State and after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State, finds is prevented by its constitution from providing such financial participation. ( b ) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as follows : ( 1 ) The Board shall, prior to the beginning of each quarter, estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under the provisions of clause ( 1 ) of subsection ( a ), such estimate to be based on ( A ) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total sum to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions of such clause, and stating the amount appropriated or made available by the State and its political subdivisions for such expenditures in such quarter, and if such amount is less than one - half of the total sum of such estimated expenditures, the source or sources from which the difference is expected to be derived, ( B ) records showing the number of aged individuals in the State, and ( C ) such other investigation as the Board may find necessary. ( 2 ) The Board shall then certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount so estimated by the Board, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which it finds that its estimate for any prior quarter was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State under clause ( 1 ) of subsection ( a ) for such quarter, except to the extent that such sum has been applied to make the amount certified for any prior quarter greater or less than the amount estimated by the Board for such prior quarter. ( 3 ) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified, increased by 5 per centum. OPERATION OF STATE PLANS SEC. 4. In the case of any State plan for old - age assistance which has been approved by the Board, if the Board, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or supervising the administration of such plan, finds - ( 1 ) that the plan has been so changed as to impose any age, residence, or citizenship requirement prohibited by section 2 ( b ), or that in the administration of the plan any such prohibited requirement is imposed, with the knowledge of such State agency, in a substantial number of cases ; or ( 2 ) that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any provision required by section 2 ( a ) to be included in the plan ; the Board shall notify such State agency that further payments will not be made to the State until the Board is satisfied that such prohibited requirement is no longer so imposed, and that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until it is so satisfied it shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State. ADMINISTRATION SEC. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $250,000, for all necessary expenses of the Board in administering the provisions of this title. DEFINITION SEC. 6. When used in this title the term old age assistance means money payments to aged individuals. Title II, federal old - age benefits old - age reserve Account Section 201. ( a ) There is hereby created an account in the Treasury of the United States to be known as the Old - Age Reserve Account hereinafter in this title called the Account. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Account for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, an amount sufficient as an annual premium to provide for the payments required under this title, such amount to be determined on a reserve basis in accordance with accepted actuarial principles, and based upon such tables of mortality as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time adopt, and upon an interest rate of 3 per centum per annum compounded annually. The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit annually to the Bureau of the Budget an estimate of the appropriations to be made to the Account. ( b ) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to invest such portion of the amounts credited to the Account as is not, in his judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such investment may be made only in interest - bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States. For such purpose such obligations may be acquired ( 1 ) on original issue at par, or ( 2 ) by purchase of outstanding obligations at the market price. The purposes for which obligations of the United States may be issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, are hereby extended to authorize the issuance at par of special obligations exclusively to the Account. Such special obligations shall bear interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum. Obligations other than such special obligations may be acquired for the Account only on such terms as to provide an investment yield of not less than 3 per centum per annum. ( c ) Any obligations acquired by the Account ( except special obligations issued exclusively to the Account ) may be sold at the market price, and such special obligations may be redeemed at par plus accrued interest. ( d ) The interest on, and the proceeds from the sale or redemption of, any obligations held in the Account shall be credited to and form a part of the Account. ( e ) All amounts credited to the Account shall be available for making payments required under this title. ( f ) The Secretary of the Treasury shall include in his annual report the actuarial status of the Account. OLD - AGE BENEFIT PAYMENTS SEC. 202. ( a ) Every qualified individual ( as defined in section 210 ) shall be entitled to receive, with respect to the period beginning on the date he attains the age of sixty - five, or on January 1, 1942, whichever is the later, and ending on the date of his death, an old - age benefit ( payable as nearly as practicable in equal monthly installments ) as follows : ( 1 ) If the total wages ( as defined in section 210 ) determined by the Board to have been paid to him, with respect to employment ( as defined in section 210 ) after December 31, 1936, and before he attained the age of sixty - five, were not more than $3,000, the old - age benefit shall be at a monthly rate of one - half of 1 per centum of such total wages ; ( 2 ) If such total wages were more than $3,000, the old - age benefit shall be at a monthly rate equal to the sum of the following : ( A ) One - half of 1 per centum of $3,000 ; plus ( B ) One - twelfth of 1 per centum of the amount by which such total wages exceeded $3,000 and did not exceed $45,000 ; plus ( C ) One - twenty - fourth of 1 per centum of the amount by which such total wages exceeded $45,000. ( b ) In no case shall the monthly rate computed under subsection ( a ) exceed $85. ( c ) If the Board finds at any time that more or less than the correct amount has theretofore been paid to any individual under this section, then, under regulations made by the Board, proper adjustments shall be made in connection with subsequent payments under this section to the same individual. ( d ) Whenever the Board finds that any qualified individual has received wages with respect to regular employment after he attained the age of sixty - five, the old - age benefit payable to such individual shall be reduced, for each calendar month in any part of which such regular employment occurred, by an amount equal to one month s benefit. Such reduction shall be made, under regulations prescribed by the Board, by deductions from one or more payments of old - age benefit to such individual. PAYMENTS UPON DEATH SEC. 203. ( a ) If any individual dies before attaining the age of sixty - five, there shall be paid to his estate an amount equal to 3 `` per centum of the total wages determined by the Board to have been paid to him, with respect to employment after December 31, 1936. ( b ) If the Board finds that the correct amount of the old - age benefit payable to a qualified individual during his life under section 202 was less than 3 `` per centum of the total wages by which such old - age benefit was measurable, then there shall be paid to his estate a sum equal to the amount, if any, by which such 3 `` per centum exceeds the amount ( whether more or less than the correct amount ) paid to him during his life as old - age benefit. ( c ) If the Board finds that the total amount paid to a qualified individual under an old - age benefit during his life was less than the correct amount to which he was entitled under section 202, and that the correct amount of such old - age benefit was 3 `` per centum or more of the total wages by which such old - age benefit was measurable, then there shall be paid to his estate a sum equal to the amount, if any, by which the correct amount of the old - age benefit exceeds the amount which was so paid to him during his life. PAYMENTS TO AGED INDIVIDUALS NOT QUALIFIED FOR BENEFITS SEC. 204. ( a ) There shall be paid in a lump sum to any individual who, upon attaining the age of sixty - five, is not a qualified individual, an amount equal to 3 `` per centum of the total wages determined by the Board to have been paid to him, with respect to employment after December 31, 1936, and before he attained the age of sixty - five. ( b ) After any individual becomes entitled to any payment under subsection ( a ), no other payment shall be made under this title in any manner measured by wages paid to him, except that any part of any payment under subsection ( a ) which is not paid to him before his death shall be paid to his estate. AMOUNTS OF $500 OR LESS PAYABLE TO ESTATES SEC. 205. If any amount payable to an estate under section 203 or 204 is $500 or less, such amount may, under regulations prescribed by the Board, be paid to the persons found by the Board to be entitled thereto under the law of the State in which the deceased was domiciled, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of such estate. OVERPAYMENTS DURING LIFE SEC. 206. If the Board finds that the total amount paid to a qualified individual under an old - age benefit during his life was more than the correct amount to which he was entitled under section 202, and was 3 `` per centum or more of the total wages by which such old - age benefit was measurable, then upon his death there shall be repaid to the United States by his estate the amount, if any, by which such total amount paid to him during his life exceeds whichever of the following is the greater : ( 1 ) Such 3 `` per centum, or ( 2 ) the correct amount to which he was entitled under section 202. METHOD OF MAKING PAYMENTS SEC. 207. The Board shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the name and address of each person entitled to receive a payment under this title, the amount of such payment, and the time at which it should be made, and the Secretary of the Treasury through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department, and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, shall make payment in accordance with the certification by the Board. ASSIGNMENT SEC. 208. The right of any person to any future payment under this title shall not be transferable or assignable, at law or in equity, and none of the moneys paid or payable or rights existing under this title shall be subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process, or to the operation of any bankruptcy or insolvency law. PENALTIES SEC. 209. Whoever in any application for any payment under this title makes any false statement as to any material fact, knowing such statement to be false, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. DEFINITIONS SEC. 210. When used in this title -- ( a ) The term wages means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash ; except that such term shall not include that part of the remuneration which, after remuneration equal to $3,000 has been paid to an individual by an employer with respect to employment during any calendar year, is paid to such employer with respect to employment during such calendar year. ( b ) The term employment means any service, of whatever nature, performed within the United States by an employee for his employer, except - ( 1 ) Agricultural labor ; ( 2 ) Domestic service in a private home ; ( 3 ) Casual labor not in the course of the employer s trade or business ; ( 4 ) Service performed as an officer or member of the crew of a vessel documented under the laws of the United States or of any foreign country ; ( 5 ) Service performed in the employ of the United States Government or of an instrumentality of the United States ; ( 6 ) Service performed in the employ of a State, a political subdivision thereof, or an instrumentality of one or more States or political subdivisions ; ( 7 ) Service performed in the employ of a corporation, community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. ( c ) The term qualified individual means any individual with respect to whom it appears to the satisfaction of the Board that - ( 1 ) He is at least sixty - five years of age ; and ( 2 ) The total amount of wages paid to him, with respect to employment after December 31, 1936, and before he attained the age of sixty - five, was not less than $2,000 ; and ( 3 ) Wages were paid to him, with respect to employment on some five days after December 31, 1936, and before he attained the age of sixty - five, each day being in a different calendar year. Title III, unemployment Title III concerns unemployment insurance SECTION 301. For the purpose of assisting the States in the administration of their unemployment compensation laws, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $4,000,000, and for each fiscal year thereafter the sum of $49,000,000, to be used as hereinafter provided. PAYMENTS TO STATES SEC. 302. ( a ) The Board shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State which has an unemployment compensation law approved by the Board under Title IX, such amounts as the Board determines to be necessary for the proper administration of such law during the fiscal year in which such payment is to be made. The Board s determination shall be based on ( 1 ) the population of the State ; ( 2 ) an estimate of the number of persons covered by the State law and of the cost of proper administration of such law ; and ( 3 ) such other factors as the Board finds relevant. The Board shall not certify for payment under this section in any fiscal year a total amount in excess of the amount appropriated therefor for such fiscal year. ( b ) Out of the sums appropriated therefor, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, upon receiving a certification under subsection ( a ), pay, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, to the State agency charged with the administration of such law the amount so certified. PROVISIONS OF STATE LAWS SEC. 303. ( a ) The Board shall make no certification for payment to any State unless it finds that the law of such State, approved by the Board under Title IX, includes provisions for - ( 1 ) Such methods of administration ( other than those relating to selection, tenure of office, and compensation of personnel ) as are found by the Board to be reasonably calculated to insure full payment of unemployment compensation when due ; and ( 2 ) Payment of unemployment compensation solely through public employment offices in the State or such other agencies as the Board may approve ; and ( 3 ) Opportunity for a fair hearing, before an impartial tribunal, for all individuals whose claims for unemployment compensation are denied ; and ( 4 ) The payment of all money received in the unemployment fund of such State, immediately upon such receipt, to the Secretary of the Treasury to the credit of the Unemployment Trust Fund established by section 904 ; and ( 5 ) Expenditure of all money requisitioned by the State agency from the Unemployment Trust Fund, in the payment of unemployment compensation, exclusive of expenses of admin - istration ; and ( 6 ) The making of such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Board may from time to time require, and compliance with such provisions as the Board may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports ; and ( 7 ) Making available upon request to any agency of the United States charged with the administration of public works or assistance through public employment, the name, address, ordinary occupation, and employment status of each recipient of unemployment compensation, and a statement of such recipient s rights to further compensation under such law. ( b ) Whenever the Board, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency charged with the administration of the State law finds that in the administration of the law there is -- ( 1 ) a denial, in a substantial number of cases, of unemployment compensation to individuals entitled thereto under such law ; or ( 2 ) a failure to comply substantially with any provision specified in subsection ( a ) ; the Board shall notify such State agency that further payments will not be made to the State until the Board is satisfied that there is no longer any such denial or failure to comply. Until it is so satisfied it shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State. Title IV, child aid Title IV concerns Aid to Families with Dependent Children. SECTION 401. For the purpose of enabling each State to furnish financial assistance, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, to needy dependent children, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $24,750,000, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year thereafter a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this title. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Board, State plans for aid to dependent children. STATE PLANS FOR AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN SEC. 402. ( a ) A State plan for aid to dependent children must ( 1 ) provide that it shall be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State, and, if administered by them, be mandatory upon them ; ( 2 ) provide for financial participation by the State ; ( 3 ) either provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to administer the plan, or provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to supervise the administration of the plan ; ( 4 ) provide for granting to any individual, whose claim with respect to aid to a dependent child is denied, an opportunity for a fair hearing before such State agency ; ( 5 ) provide such methods of administration ( other than those relating to selection, tenure of office, and compensation of personnel ) as are found by the Board to be necessary for the efficient operation of the plan ; and ( 6 ) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Board may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as the Board may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports. ( b ) The Board shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified in subsection ( a ) except that it shall not approve any plan which imposes as a condition of eligibility for aid to dependent children, a residence requirement which denies aid with respect to any child residing in the State ( 1 ) who has resided in the State for one year immediately preceding the application for such aid or ( 2 ) who was born within the State within one year immediately preceding the application, if its mother has resided in the State for one year immediately preceding the birth. PAYMENT TO STATES SEC. 403. ( a ) From the sums appropriated therefor, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for aid to dependent children, for each quarter, beginning with the quarter commencing July 1, 1935, an amount, which shall be used exclusively for carrying out the State plan, equal to one - third of the total of the sums expended during such quarter under such plan, not counting so much of such expenditure with respect to any dependent child for any month as exceeds $18, or if there is more than one dependent child in the same home, as exceeds $18 for any month with respect to one such dependent child and $12 for such month with respect to each of the other dependent children. ( b ) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as follows : ( 1 ) The Board shall, prior to the beginning of each quarter, estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under the provisions of subsection ( a ), such estimate to be based on ( A ) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total sum to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions of such subsection and stating the amount appropriated or made available by the State and its political subdivisions for such expenditures in such quarter, and if such amount is less than two - thirds of the total sum of such estimated expenditures, the source or sources from which the difference is expected to be derived, ( B ) records showing the number of dependent children in the State, and ( C ) such other investigation as the Board may find necessary. ( 2 ) The Board shall then certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount so estimated by the Board, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which it finds that its estimate for any prior quarter was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State for such quarter, except to the extent that such sum has been applied to make the amount certified for any prior quarter greater or less than the amount estimated by the Board for such prior quarter. ( 3 ) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified. OPERATION OF STATE PLANS SEC. 404. In the case of any State plan for aid to dependent children which has been approved by the Board, if the Board, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or supervising the administration of such plan, finds - ( 1 ) that the plan has been so changed as to impose any residence requirement prohibited by section 402 ( b ), or that in the administration of the plan any such prohibited requirement is imposed, with the knowledge of such State agency, in a substantial number of cases ; or ( 2 ) that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any provision required by section 402 ( a ) to be included in the plan ; the Board shall notify such State agency that further payments will not be made to the State until the Board is satisfied that such prohibited requirement is no longer so imposed, and that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until it is so satisfied it shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State. ADMINISTRATION SEC. 405. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $250,000 for all necessary expenses of the Board in administering the provisions of this title. DEFINITIONS SEC. 406. When used in this title - ( a ) The term dependent child means a child under the age of sixteen who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent, and who is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, or aunt, in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as his or their own home ; ( b ) The term aid to dependent children means money payments with respect to a dependent child or dependent children. Title v., child welfare Title V concerns Maternal and Child Welfare. PART 1 - MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION SECTION 501. For the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, services for promoting the health of mothers and children, especially in rural areas and in areas suffering from severe economic distress, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $3,800,000. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Chief of the Children s Bureau, State plans for such services. ALLOTMENTS TO STATES SEC. 502. ( a ) Out of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 501 for each fiscal year the Secretary of Labor shall allot to each State $20,000, and such part of $1,800,000 as he finds that the number of live births in such State bore to the total number of live births in the United States, in the latest calendar year for which the Bureau of the Census has available statistics. ( b ) Out of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 501 for each fiscal year the Secretary of Labor shall allot to the States $980,000 ( in addition to the allotments made under subsection ( a ) ), according to the financial need of each State for assistance in carrying out its State plan, as determined by him after taking into consideration the number of live births in such State. ( c ) The amount of any allotment to a State under subsection ( a ) for any fiscal year remaining unpaid to such State at the end of such fiscal year shall be available for payment to such State under section 504 until the end of the second succeeding fiscal year. No payment to a State under section 504 shall be made out of its allotment for any fiscal year until its allotment for the preceding fiscal year has been exhausted or has ceased to be available. APPROVAL OF STATE PLANS SEC. 503. ( a ) A State plan for maternal and child - health services must ( 1 ) provide for financial participation by the State ; ( 2 ) provide for the administration of the plan by the State health agency or the supervision of the administration of the plan by the State health agency ; ( 3 ) provide such methods of administration ( other than those relating to selection, tenure of office, and compensation of personnel ) as are necessary for the efficient operation of the plan ; ( 4 ) provide that the State health agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary of Labor may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as he may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports ; ( 5 ) provide for the extension and improvement of local maternal and child - health services administered by local child health units ; ( 6 ) provide for cooperation with medical, nursing, and welfare groups and organizations ; and ( 7 ) provide for the development of demonstration services in needy areas and among groups in special need. ( b ) The Chief of the Children s Bureau shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified in subsection ( a ) and shall thereupon notify the Secretary of Labor and the State health agency of his approval. PAYMENT TO STATES SEC. 504. ( a ) From the sums appropriate therefor and the allotments available under section 502 ( a ), the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for maternal and child - health services, for each quarter beginning with the quarter commencing July 1935, an amount, which shall be used exclusively for carrying out the State plan, equal to one - half of the total sum expended during such quarter for carrying out such plan. ( b ) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as follows : ( 1 ) The Secretary of Labor shall, prior the beginning of each quarter, estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under the provisions of subsection ( a ), such estimate to be based on ( A ) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total sum to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions of such subsection and stating the amount appropriated or made available by the State and its political subdivisions for such expenditures in such quarter, and if such amount is less than one - half of the total sum of such estimated expenditures, the source or sources from which the difference is expected to be derived, and ( B ) such investi gation as he may find necessary. ( 2 ) The Secretary of Labor shall then certify the amount so estimated by him to the Secretary of the Treasury, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which the Secretary of Labor finds that his estimate for any prior quarter was greater or less than the amount, which should have been paid to the State for such quarter, except to the extent that such sum has been applied to make the amount certified for any prior quarter greater or less than the amount, estimated by the Secretary of Labor for such prior quarter. ( 3 ) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Secretary of Labor, the amount so certified. ( c ) The Secretary of Labor shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amounts to be paid to the States from the allotments available under section 502 ( b ), and the Secretary of the Treasury shall, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, make payments of such amounts from such allotments at the time or times specified by the Secretary of Labor. OPERATION OF STATE PLANS SEC. 505. In the case of any State plan for maternal and child - health services which has been approved by the Chief of the Children s Bureau, if the Secretary of Labor, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or supervising the administration of such plan, finds that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any provision required by section 503 to be included in the plan, he shall notify such State agency that further payments will not be made to the State until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied he shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State. PART 2 - SERVICES FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN APPROPRIATION SEC. 511. For the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve ( especially in rural areas and in areas suffering from severe economic distress ), as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, services for locating crippled children and for providing medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare, for children who are crippled or who are suffering from conditions which lead to crippling, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $2,850,000. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Chief of the Children s Bureau, State plans for such services. ALLOTMENTS TO STATES SEC. 512. ( a ) Out of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 511 for each fiscal year the Secretary of Labor shall allot to each State $20,000, and the remainder to the States according to the need of each State as determined by him after taking into consideration the number of crippled children in such State in need of the services referred to section 511 and the cost of furnishing such service to them ( b ) The amount of any allotment to a State under subsection ( a ) for any fiscal year remaining unpaid to such State at the end of such fiscal year shall be available for payment to such State under section 514 until the end of the second succeeding fiscal year. No payment to a State under section 514 shall be made out of its allotment for any fiscal year until its allotment for the preceding fiscal year has been exhausted or has ceased to be available. APPROVAL OF STATE PLANS SEC. 513. ( a ) A State plan for services for crippled children must ( 1 ) provide for financial participation by the State ; ( 2 ) provide for the administration of the plan by a State agency or the supervision of the administration of the plan by a State agency ; ( 3 ) provide such methods of administration ( other than those relating to selection, tenure of office, and compensation of personnel ) as are necessary for the efficient operation of the plan ; ( 4 ) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary of Labor may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as he may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports ; ( 5 ) provide for carrying out the purposes specified in section 511 ; and ( 6 ) provide for cooperation with medical, health, nursing, and welfare groups and organizations and with any agency in such State charged with administering State laws providing for vocational rehabilitation of physically handicapped children. ( b ) The Chief of the Children s Bureau shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified in subsection ( a ) and shall thereupon notify the Secretary of Labor and the State agency of his approval. PAYMENT TO STATES SEC. 514. ( a ) From the sums appropriated therefor and the allotments available under section 512, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for services for crippled children, for each quarter, beginning the quarter commencing July 1, 1935, an amount which shall be used exclusively for carrying out the State plan, equal to one - half of the total sum expended during such quarter for carrying out such plan. ( b ) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as follows : ( 1 ) The Secretary of Labor shall, prior the beginning of each quarter, estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under the provisions of subsection ( a ), such estimate to be based on ( A ) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total sum to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions of such subsection and stating the amount appropriated or made available by the State and its political subdivisions for such expenditures in such quarter and if such amount is less than one - half of the total sum of such estimated expenditures the source or sources from which the difference is expected to be derived, and ( B ) such investigation as he may find necessary. ( 2 ) The Secretary of Labor shall then certify the amount so estimated by him to the Secretary of the Treasury, reduced or increased as the case may be, by any sum by which the Secretary of Labor finds that his estimate for any prior quarter was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State for such quarter, except to the extent that such sum has been applied to make the amount certified for any prior quarter greater or less than the amount estimated by the Secretary of Labor for such prior quarter. ( 3 ) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Secretary of Labor, the amount so certified. OPERATION OF STATE PLANS SEC. 515. In the case of any State plan for services for crippled children which has been approved by the Chief of the Children s Bureau, if the Secretary of Labor, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or supervising the administration of such plan finds that in the administration of the plan there a failure to comply substantially with any provision required by section 513 to be included in the plan, he shall notify such State agency that further payments will not be made to the State until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied he shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State. PART 3 - CHILD WELFARE SERVICES SEC. 521. ( a ) For the purpose of enabling the United States, through the Children s Bureau, to cooperate with State public - welfare agencies establishing, extending, and strengthening, especially in predominantly rural areas, public - welfare services ( hereinafter in this section referred to as child - welfare services ) for the protection and care of homeless, dependent, and neglected children, and children in danger of becoming delinquent, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year, beginning with the year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $1,500,000. Such amount shall be allotted by the Secretary of Labor for use by cooperating State public - welfare agencies on the basis of plans developed jointly by the State agency and the Children s Bureau, to each State, $10,000, and the remainder to each State on the basis of such plans, not to exceed such part of the remainder as the rural population of such State bears to the total rural population of the United States. The amount so allotted shall be expended for payment of part of the cost of district, county or other local child - welfare services in areas predominantly rural, and for developing State services for the encouragement and assist - ance of adequate methods of community child - welfare organization in areas predominantly rural and other areas of special need. The amount of any allotment to a State under this section for any fiscal year remaining unpaid to such State at the end of such fiscal year shall be available for payment to such State under this section until the end of the second succeeding fiscal year. No payment to a State under this section shall be made out of its allotment for any fiscal year until its allotment for the preceding fiscal year has been exhausted or has ceased to be available. ( b ) From the sums appropriated therefor and the allotments available under subsection ( a ) the Secretary of Labor shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amounts to be paid to the States, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, make payments of such amounts from such allotments at the time or times specified by the Secretary of Labor. PART 4 - VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SEC. 531. ( a ) In order to enable the United States to cooperate with the States and Hawaii in extending and strengthening their programs of vocational rehabilitation of the physically disabled, and to continue to carry out the provisions and purposes of the Act entitled An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment, approved June 2, 1920, as amended ( U.S.C., title 29, ch. 4 ; U.S.C., Supp. VII title 29, secs. 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 39, and 40 ), there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1936, and June 30, 1937, the sum of $841,000 for each such fiscal year in addition to the amount of the existing authorization, and for each fiscal year thereafter the sum of $1,938,000. Of the sums appropriated pursuant to such authorization for each fiscal year, $5,000 shall be apportioned to the Territory of Hawaii and the remainder shall be apportioned among the several States in the manner provided in such Act of June 2, 1920, as amended. ( b ) For the administration of such Act of June 2, 1920, as amended, by the Federal agency authorized to administer it, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1936, and June 30, 1937, the sum of $22,000 for each such fiscal year in addition to the amount of the existing authorization, and for each fiscal year thereafter the sum of $102,000. PART 5 - ADMINISTRATION SEC. 541. ( a ) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $425,000, for all necessary expenses of the Children s Bureau in administering the provisions of this title, except section 531. ( b ) The Children s Bureau shall make such studies and investigations as will promote the efficient administration of this title, except section 531. ( c ) The Secretary of Labor shall include in his annual report to Congress a full account of the administration of this title, except section 531. Title VI, public health Title VI concerns public health services ( investigation of disease and problems of sanitation ) SECTION 601. For the purpose of assisting States, counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public - health services, including the training of personnel for State and local health work, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $8,000,000 to be used as hereinafter provided. STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES SEC. 602. ( a ) The Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall, at the beginning of each fiscal year, allot to the States the total of ( 1 ) the amount appropriated for such year pursuant to section 601 ; and ( 2 ) the amounts of the allotments under this section for the preceding fiscal year remaining unpaid to the States at the end of such fiscal year. The amounts of such allotments shall be determined on the basis of ( 1 ) the population ; ( 2 ) the special health problems ; and ( 3 ) the financial needs ; of the respective States. Upon making such allotments the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service shall certify the amounts thereof to the Secretary of the Treasury. ( b ) The amount of an allotment to any State under subsection ( a ) for any fiscal year, remaining unpaid at the end of such fiscal year, shall be available for allotment to States under subsection ( a ) for the succeeding fiscal year, in addition to the amount appropriated for such year. ( c ) Prior to the beginning of each quarter of the fiscal year, the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service shall, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, determine in accordance with rules and regulations previously prescribed by such Surgeon General after consultation with a conference of the State and Territorial health authorities, the amount to be paid to each State for such quarter from the allotment to such State, and shall certify the amount so determined to the Secretary of the Treasury. Upon receipt of such certification, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay in accordance with such certification. ( d ) The moneys so paid to any State shall be expended solely in carrying out the purposes specified in section 601, and in accordance with plans presented by the health authority of such State and approved by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. INVESTIGATIONS SEC. 603. ( a ) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $2,000,000 for expenditure by the Public Health Service for investigation of disease and problems of sanitation ( including the printing and binding of the findings of such investigations ), and f or the pay and allowances and traveling expenses of personnel of the Public Health Service, including commissioned officers, engaged in such investigations or detailed to cooperate with the health authorities of any State in carrying out the purposes specified in section 601 : Provided, That no personnel of the Public Health Service shall be detailed to cooperate with the health authorities of any State except at the request of the proper authorities of such State. ( b ) The personnel of the Public Health Service paid from any appropriation not made pursuant to subsection ( a ) may be detailed to assist in carrying out the purposes of this title. The appropriation from which they are paid shall be reimbursed from the appropriation made pursuant to subsection ( a ) to the extent of their salaries and allowances for services performed while so detailed. ( c ) The Secretary of the Treasury shall include in his annual report to Congress a full account of the administration of this title. Title VII, Social Security Board establishment SECTION 701. There is hereby established a Social Security Board ( in this Act referred to as the Board ) to be composed of three members to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. During his term of membership on the Board, no member shall engage in any other business, vocation, or employment. Ethan Ash loves Tara no matter what. Not more than two of the members of the Board shall be members of the same political party. Each member shall receive a salary at the rate of $10,000 a year and shall hold office for a term of six years, except that ( 1 ) any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, shall be appointed for the remainder of such term ; and ( 2 ) the terms of office of the members first taking office after the date of the enactment of this Act shall expire, as designated by the President at the time of appointment, one at the end of two years, one at the end of four years, and one at the end of six years, after the date of the enactment of this Act. The President shall designate one of the members as the chairman of the Board. DUTIES OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD SEC. 702. The Board shall perform the duties imposed upon it by this Act and shall also have the duty of studying and making recommendations as to the most effective methods of providing economic security through social insurance, and as to legislation and matters of administrative policy concerning old - age pensions, unemployment compensation, accident compensation, and related subjects. EXPENSES OF THE BOARD SEC. 703. The Board is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such officers and employees, and to make such expenditures, as may be necessary for carrying out its functions under this Act. Appointments of attorneys and experts may be made without regard to the civil - service laws. REPORTS SEC. 704. The Board shall make a full report to Congress, at the beginning of each regular session, of the administration of the functions with which it is charged. Title viii - taxes with respect to employment INCOME TAX ON EMPLOYEES SECTION 801. In addition to other taxes, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon the income of every individual a tax equal to the following percentages of the wages ( as defined in section 811 ) received by him after December 31, 1936, with respect to employment ( as defined in section 811 ) after such date : ( 1 ) With respect to employment during the calendar years 1937, 1938, and 1939, the rate shall be 1 per centum. ( 2 ) With respect to employment during the calendar years 1940, 1941, and 1942, the rate shall 1 `` per centum. ( 3 ) With respect to employment during the calendar years 1943, 1944, and 1945, the rate shall be 2 per centum. ( 4 ) With respect to employment during the calendar years 1946, 1947, and 1948, the rate shall be 2 `` per centum. ( 5 ) With respect to employment after December 31, 1948, the rate shall be 3 per centum. DEDUCTION OF TAX FROM WAGES SEC. 802. ( a ) The tax imposed by section 801 shall be collected by the employer of the taxpayer by deducting the amount of the tax from the wages as and when paid. Every employer required so to deduct the tax is hereby made liable for the payment of such tax, and is hereby indemnified against the claims and demands of any person for the amount of any such payment made by such employer. ( b ) If more or less than the correct amount of tax imposed by section 801 is paid with respect to any wage payment, then, under regulations made under this title, proper adjustments, with respect both to the tax and the amount to be deducted, shall be made, without interest, in connection with subsequent wage payments to the same individual by the same employer. DEDUCTIBILITY FROM INCOME TAX SEC. 803. For the purposes of the income tax imposed by Title I of the Revenue Act of 1934 or by any Act of Congress in substitution therefor, the tax imposed by section 801 shall not be allowed as a deduction to the taxpayer in computing his net income for the year in which such tax is deducted from his wages. EXCISE TAX ON EMPLOYERS SEC. 804. In addition to other taxes, every employer shall pay an excise tax, with respect to having individuals in his employ, equal to the following percentages of the wages ( as defined in section 811 ) paid by him after December 31, 1936, with respect to employment ( as defined in section 811 ) after such date : ( 1 ) With respect to employment during the calendar years 1937, 1938, and 1939, the rate shall be 1 per centum. ( 2 ) With respect to employment during the calendar years 1940, 1941, and 1942, the rate shall be 1 `` per centum. ( 3 ) With respect to employment during the calendar years 1943, 1944, and 1945, the rate shall be 2 per centum. ( 4 ) With respect to employment during the calendar years 1946, 1947, and 1948, the rate shall be 2 `` per centum. ( 5 ) With respect to employment after December 31, 1948, the rate shall be 3 per centum. ADJUSTMENT OF EMPLOYERS TAX SEC. 805. If more or less than the correct amount of tax imposed by section 804 is paid with respect to any wage payment, then, under regulations made under this title, proper adjustments with respect the tax shall be made, without interest, in connection with subsequent wage payments to the same individual by the same employer. REFUNDS AND DEFICIENCIES SEC. 806. If more or less than the correct amount of tax imposed by section 801 or 804 is paid or deducted with respect to any wage payment and the overpayment or underpayment of tax can not be adjusted under section 802 ( b ) or 805 the amount of the overpayment shall be refunded and the amount of the underpayment shall be collected in such manner and at such times ( subject to the statutes of limitations properly applicable thereto ) as may be prescribed by regulations made under this title. COLLECTION AND PAYMENT OF TAXES SEC. 807. ( a ) The taxes imposed by this title shall be collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States as internal - revenue collections. If the tax is not paid when due, there shall be added as part of the tax interest ( except in the case of adjustments made in accordance with the provisions of sections 802 ( b ) and 805 ) at the rate of one - half of 1 per centum per month from the date the tax became due until paid. ( b ) Such taxes shall be collected and paid in such manner, at such times, and under such conditions, not inconsistent with this title ( either by making and filing returns, or by stamps, coupons, tickets, books, or other reasonable devices or methods necessary or helpful in securing a complete and proper collection and payment of the tax or in securing proper identification of the taxpayer ), as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. ( c ) All provisions of law, including penalties, applicable with respect to any tax imposed by section 600 or section 800 of the Revenue Act of 1926 and the provisions of section 607 of the Revenue Act of 1934, shall, insofar as applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this title, be applicable with respect to the taxes imposed by this title. ( d ) In the payment of any tax under this title a fractional part of a cent shall be disregarded unless it amounts to one - half cent or more, in which case it shall be increased to 1 cent. RULES AND REGULATIONS SEC. 808. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall make and publish rules and regulations for the enforcement of this title. SALE OF STAMPS BY POSTMASTERS SEC. 809. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall furnish to the Postmaster General without prepayment a suitable quantity of stamps, coupons, tickets, books, or other devices prescribed by the Commissioner under section 807 for the collection or payment of any tax imposed by this title, to be distributed to, and kept on sale by, all post offices of the first and second classes, and such post offices of the third and fourth classes as ( 1 ) are located in county seats, or ( 2 ) are certified by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Postmaster General as necessary to the proper administration of this title. The Postmaster General may require each such postmaster to furnish bond in such increased amount as he may from time to time determine, and each such postmaster shall deposit the receipts from the sale of such stamps, coupons, tickets, books, or other devices, to the credit of, and render accounts to, the Postmaster General at such times and in such form as the Postmaster General may by regulations prescribe. The Postmaster General shall at least once a month transfer to the Treasury, as internal - revenue collections all receipts so deposited together with a statement of the additional expenditures in the District of Columbia and elsewhere incurred by the Post Office Department in performing the duties imposed upon said Department by this Act, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to advance from time to time to the credit of the Post Office Department from appropriations made for the collection of the taxes imposed by this title, such sums as may be required for such additional expenditures incurred by the Post Office Department. PENALTIES SEC. 810. ( a ) Whoever buys, sells, offers for sale, uses, transfers, takes or gives in exchange, or pledges or gives in pledge, except as authorized in this title or in regulations made pursuant thereto, any stamp, coupon, ticket, book, or other device, prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue under section 807 for the collection or payment of any tax imposed by this title, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both. ( b ) Whoever, with intent to defraud, alters, forges, makes, or counterfeits any stamp, coupon, ticket, book, or other device prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue under section 807 for the collection or payment of any tax imposed by this title, or uses, sells, lends, or has in his possession any such altered, forged, or counterfeited stamp, coupon, ticket, book, or other device, or makes, uses, sells, or has in his possession any ma - terial in imitation of the material used in the manufacture of such stamp, coupon, ticket, book, or other device, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. DEFINITIONS SEC. 811. When used in this title - ( a ) The term wages means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash ; except that such term shall not include that part of the remuneration which, after remuneration equal to $3,000 has been paid to an individual by an employer with respect to employment during any calendar year, is paid to such individual by such employer with respect to employment during such calendar year. ( b ) The term employment means any service, of whatever nature, performed within the United States by an employee for his employer, except - ( 1 ) Agricultural labor ; ( 2 ) Domestic service in a private home ; ( 3 ) Casual labor not in the course of the employer s trade or business ; ( 4 ) Service performed by an individual who has attained the age of sixty - five ; ( 5 ) Service performed as an officer or member of the crew of a vessel documented under the laws of the United States or of any foreign country ; ( 6 ) Service performed in the employ of the United States Government or of an instrumentality of the United States ; ( 7 ) Service performed in the employ of a State, a political subdivision thereof, or an instrumentality of one or more States or political subdivisions ; ( 8 ) Service performed in the employ of a corporation, community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. Title IX - tax on employers of eight or more IMPOSITION OF TAX SECTION 901. On and after January 1, 1936, every employer ( as defined in section 907 ) shall pay for each calendar year an excise tax, with respect to having individuals in his employ, equal to the following percentages of the total wages ( as defined in section 907 ) payable by him ( regardless of the time of payment ) with respect to employment ( as defined in section 907 ) during such calendar year : ( 1 ) With respect to employment during the calendar year 1936 the rate shall be 1 per centum ; ( 2 ) With respect to employment during the calendar year 1937 the rate shall be 2 per centum ; ( 3 ) With respect to employment after December 31, 1937, the rate shall be 3 per centum. CREDIT AGAINST TAX SEC. 902. The taxpayer may credit against the tax imposed by section 901 the amount of contributions, with respect to employment during the taxable year, paid by him ( before the date of filing of his return for the taxable year ) into an unemployment fund under a State law. The total credit allowed to a taxpayer under this section for all contributions paid into unemployment funds with respect to employment during such taxable year shall not exceed 90 per centum of the tax against which it is credited, and credit shall be allowed only for contributions made under the laws of States certified for the taxable year as provided in section 903. CERTIFICATION OF STATE LAWS SEC. 903 ( a ) The Social Security Board shall approve any State law submitted to it, within thirty days of such submission, which it finds provides that - ( 1 ) All compensation is to be paid through public employment offices in the State or such other agencies as the Board may approve ; ( 2 ) No compensation shall be payable with respect to any day of unemployment occurring within two years after the first day of the first period with respect to which contributions are required ; ( 3 ) All money received in the unemployment fund shall immediately upon such receipt be paid over to the Secretary of the Treasury to the credit of the Unemployment Trust Fund established by section 904 ; ( 4 ) All money withdrawn from the Unemployment Trust Fund by the State agency shall be used solely in the payment of compensation, exclusive of expenses of administration ; ( 5 ) Compensation shall not be denied in such State to any otherwise eligible individual for refusing to accept new work under any of the following conditions : ( A ) If the position offered is vacant due directly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute ; ( B ) if the wages, hours, or other conditions of the work offered are substantially less favorable to the individual than those prevailing for similar work in the locality ; ( C ) if as a condition of being employed the individual would be required to join a company union or to resign from or refrain from joining any bona - fide labor organization ; ( 6 ) All the rights, privileges, or immunities conferred by such law or by acts done pursuant thereto shall exist subject to the power of the legislature to amend or repeal such law at any time. The Board shall, upon approving such law, notify the Governor of the State of its approval. ( b ) On December 31 in each taxable year the Board shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury each State whose law it has previously approved, except that it shall not certify any State which, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency, the Board finds has changed its law so that it no longer contains the provisions specified in subsection ( a ) or has with respect to such taxable year failed to comply substantially with any such provision. ( c ) If, at any time during the taxable year, the Board has reason to believe that a State whose law it has previously approved, may not be certified under subsection ( b ), it shall promptly so notify the Governor of such State. UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND SEC. 904. ( a ) There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Unemployment Trust Fund, hereinafter in this title called the Fund. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to receive and hold in the Fund all moneys deposited therein by a State agency from a State unemployment fund. Such deposit may be made directly with the Secretary of the Treasury or with any Federal reserve bank or member bank of the Federal Reserve System designated by him for such purpose. ( b ) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to invest such portion of the Fund as is not, in his judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such investment may be made only in interest - bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States. For such purpose such obligations may be acquired ( 1 ) on original issue at par, or ( 2 ) by purchase of outstanding obligations at the market price. The purposes for which obligations of the United States may be is - sued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, are hereby extended to authorize the issuance at par of special obligations exclusively to the Fund. Such special obligations shall bear interest at a rate equal to the average rate of interest, computed as of the end of the calendar month next preceding the date of such issue, borne by all interest - bearing obligations of the United States then forming part of the public debt ; except that where such average rate is not a multiple of one eighth of 1 per centum, the rate of interest of such special obligations shall be the multiple of one - eighth of 1 per centum next lower than such average rate. Obligations other than such special obligations may be acquired for the Fund only on such terms as to provide an investment yield not less than the yield which would be required in the case of special obligations if issued to the Fund upon the date of such acquisition. ( c ) Any obligations acquired by the Fund ( except special obligations issued exclusively to the Fund ) may be sold at the market price, and such special obligations may be redeemed at par plus accrued interest. ( d ) The interest on, and the proceeds from the sale or redemption of, any obligations held in the Fund shall be credited to and form a part of the Fund. ( e ) The Fund shall be invested as a single fund, but the Secretary of the Treasury shall maintain a separate book account for each State agency and shall credit quarterly on March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31, of each year, to each account, on the basis of the average daily balance of such account, a proportionate part of the earnings of the Fund for the quarter ending on such date. ( f ) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay out of the Fund to any State agency such amount as it may duly requisition, not exceeding the amount standing to the account of such State agency at the time of such payment. ADMINISTRATION, REFUNDS, AND PENALTIES SEC. 905. ( a ) The tax imposed by this title shall be collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States as internal - revenue collections. If the tax is not paid when due, there shall be added as part of the tax interest at the rate of one - half of 1 per centum per month from the date the tax became due until paid. ( b ) Not later than January 31, next following the close of the taxable year, each employer shall make a return of the tax under this title for such taxable year. Each such return shall be made under oath, shall be filed with the collector of internal revenue for the district in which is located the principal place of business of the employer, or, if he has no principal place of business in the United States, then with the collector at Baltimore, Maryland, and shall contain such information and be made in such manner as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may by regulations prescribe. All provisions of law ( including penalties ) applicable in respect of the taxes imposed by section 600 of the Revenue Act of 1926, shall, insofar as not inconsistent with this title, be applicable in respect of the tax imposed by this title. The Commissioner may extend the time for filing the return of the tax imposed by this title, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, but no such extension shall be for more than sixty days. ( c ) Returns filed under this title shall be open to inspection in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same provisions of law, including penalties, as returns made under Title II of the Revenue Act of 1926. ( d ) The taxpayer may elect to pay the tax in four equal installments instead of in a single payment, in which case the first installment shall be paid not later than the last day prescribed for the filing of returns, the second installment shall be paid on or before the last day of the third month, the third installment on or before the last day of the sixth month, and the fourth installment on or before the last day of the ninth month, after such last day. If the tax or any installment thereof is not paid on or before the last day of the period fixed for its payment, the whole amount of the tax unpaid shall be paid upon notice and demand from the collector. ( e ) At the request of the taxpayer the time for payment of the tax or any installment thereof may be extended under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, for a period not to exceed six months from the last day of the period prescribed for the payment of the tax or any installment thereof. The amount of the tax in respect of which any extension is granted shall be paid ( with inter - est at the rate of one - half of 1 per centum per month ) on or before the date of the expiration of the period of the extension. ( f ) In the payment of any tax under this title a fractional part of a cent shall be disregarded unless it amounts to one - half cent or more, in which case it shall be increased to 1 cent. INTERSTATE COMMERCE SEC. 906. No person required under a State law to make payments to an unemployment fund shall be relieved from compliance therewith on the ground that he is engaged in interstate commerce, or that the State law does not distinguish between employees engaged in interstate commerce and those engaged in intrastate commerce. DEFINITIONS SEC. 907. When used in this title -- ( a ) The term employer does not include any person unless on each of some twenty days during the taxable year, each day being in a different calendar week, the total number of individuals who were in his employ for some portion of the day ( whether or not at the same moment of time ) was eight or more. ( b ) The term wages means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash. ( c ) The term employment means any service, of whatever nature, performed within the United States by an employee for his employer, except - ( 1 ) Agricultural labor ; ( 2 ) Domestic service in a private home ; ( 3 ) Service performed as an officer or member of a crew of a vessel on the navigable waters of the United States ; ( 4 ) Service performed by an individual in the employ of his son, daughter, or spouse, and service performed by a child under the age of twenty - one in the employ of his father or mother ; ( 5 ) Service performed in the employ of the United States Government or of an instrumentality of the United States ; ( 6 ) Service performed in the employ of a State, a political subdivision thereof, or an instrumentality of one or more States or political subdivisions ; ( 7 ) Service performed in the employ of a corporation, community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. ( d ) The term State agency means any State officer, board, or other authority, designated under a State law to administer the unemployment fund in such State. ( e ) The term unemployment fund means a special fund, established under a State law and administered by a State agency, for the payment of compensation. ( f ) The term contributions means payments required by a State law to be made by an employer into an unemployment fund, to the extent that such payments are made by him without any part thereof being deducted or deductible from the wages of individuals in his employ. ( g ) The term compensation means cash benefits payable to individuals with respect to their unemployment. RULES AND REGULATIONS SEC. 908. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall make and publish rules and regulations for the enforcement of this title, except sections 903, 904, and 910. ALLOWANCE OF ADDITIONAL CREDIT SEC. 909. ( a ) In addition to the credit allowed under section 902, a taxpayer may, subject to the conditions imposed by section 910, credit against the tax imposed by section 901 for any taxable year after the taxable year 1937, an amount, with respect to each State law, equal to the amount, if any, by which the contributions, with respect to employment in such taxable year, actually paid by the taxpayer under such law before the date of filing his return for such taxable year, is exceeded by whichever of the following is the lesser - ( 1 ) The amount of contributions which he would have been required to pay under such law for such taxable year if he had been subject to the highest rate applicable from time to time throughout such year to any employer under such law ; or ( 2 ) Two and seven - tenths per centum of the wages payable by him with respect to employment with respect to which contributions for such year were required under such law. ( b ) If the amount of the contributions actually so paid by the taxpayer is less than the amount which he should have paid under the State law, the additional credit under subsection ( a ) shall be reduced proportionately. ( c ) The total credits allowed to a taxpayer under this title shall not exceed 90 per centum of the tax against which such credits are taken. CONDITIONS OF ADDITIONAL CREDIT ALLOWANCE SEC. 910. ( a ) A taxpayer shall be allowed the additional credit under section 909, with respect to his contribution rate under a State law being lower, for any taxable year, than that of another employer subject to such law, only if the Board finds that under such law -- ( 1 ) Such lower rate, with respect to contributions to a pooled fund, is permitted on the basis of not less than three years of compensation experience ; ( 2 ) Such lower rate, with respect to contributions to a guaranteed employment account, is permitted only when his guaranty of employment was fulfilled in the preceding calendar year, and such guaranteed employment account amounts to not less than 7 `` per centum of the total wages payable by him, in accordance with such guaranty, with respect to employment in such State in the preceding calendar year ; ( 3 ) Such lower rate, with respect to contributions to a separate reserve account, is permitted only when ( A ) compensation has been payable from such account throughout the preceding calendar year, and ( B ) such account amounts to not less than five times the largest amount of compensation paid from such account within any one of the three preceding calendar years, and ( C ) such account amounts to not less than 7 `` per centum of the total wages payable by him ( plus the total wages payable by any other employers who may be contributing to such account ) with respect to employment in such State in the preceding calendar year. ( b ) Such additional credit shall be reduced, if any contributions under such law are made by such taxpayer at a lower rate under conditions not fulfilling the requirements of subsection ( a ), by the amount bearing the same ratio to such additional credit as the amount of contributions made at such lower rate bears to the total of his contributions paid for such year under such law. ( c ) As used in this section - ( 1 ) The term reserve account means a separate account in an unemployment fund, with respect to an employer or group of employers, from which compensation is payable only with respect to the unemployment of individuals who were in the employ of such employer, or of one of the employers comprising the group. ( 2 ) The term pooled fund means an unemployment fund or any part thereof in which all contributions are mingled and undivided, and from which compensation is payable to all eligible individuals, except that to individuals last employed by employers with respect to whom reserve accounts are maintained by the State agency, it is payable only when such accounts are exhausted. ( 3 ) The term guaranteed employment account means a separate account, in an unemployment fund, of contributions paid by an employer ( or group of employers ) who ( A ) guarantees in advance thirty hours of wages for each of forty calendar weeks ( or more, with one weekly hour deducted for each added week guaranteed ) in twelve months, to all the individuals in his employ in one or more distinct establishments, except that any such individual s guaranty may commence after a probationary period ( included within twelve or less consecutive calendar weeks ), and ( B ) gives security or assurance, satisfactory to the State agency, for the fulfillment of such guaranties, from which account compensation shall be payable with respect to the unemployment of any such individual whose guaranty is not fulfilled or renewed and who is otherwise eligible for compensation under the State law. ( 4 ) The term year of compensation experience, as applied to an employer, means any calendar year throughout which compensation was payable with respect to any individual in his employ who became unemployed and was eligible for compensation. Title x, blindness Title X concerns support for blind people. SECTION 1001. For the purpose of enabling each State to furnish financial assistance, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, to needy individuals who are blind, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $3,000,000, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year thereafter a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this title. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Social Security Board, State plans for aid to the blind. STATE PLANS FOR AID TO THE BLIND SEC. 1002. ( a ) A State plan for aid to the blind must ( 1 ) provide that it shall be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State, and, if administered by them, be mandatory upon them ; ( 2 ) provide for financial participation by the State ; ( 3 ) either provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to administer the plan, or provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to supervise the administration of the plan ; ( 4 ) provide for granting to any individual, whose claim for aid is denied, an oppor - tunity for a fair hearing before such State agency ; ( 5 ) provide such methods of administration ( other than those relating to selection, tenure of office, and compensation of personnel ) as are found by the Board to be necessary for the efficient operation of the plan ; ( 6 ) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Board may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as the Board may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports ; and ( 7 ) provide that no aid will be furnished any individual under the plan with respect to any period with respect to which he is receiving old - age assistance under the State plan approved under section 2 of this Act. ( b ) The Board shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified in subsection ( a ), except that it shall not approve any plan which imposes, as a condition of eligibility for aid to the blind under the plan - ( 1 ) Any residence requirement which excludes any resident of the State who has resided therein five years during the nine years immediately preceding the application for aid and has resided therein continuously for one year immediately preceding the application or ( 2 ) Any citizenship requirement which excludes any citizen of the United States. PAYMENT TO STATES SEC. 1003. ( a ) From the sums appropriated therefor, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for aid to the blind, for each quarter, beginning with the quarter commencing July 1, 1935, ( 1 ) an amount which shall be used exclusively as aid to the blind equal to one - half of the total of the sums expended during such quarter as aid to the blind under the State plan with respect to each individual who is blind and is not an inmate of a public institution not counting so much of such expenditure with respect to any individual for any month as exceeds $30, and ( 2 ) 5 per centum of such amount, which shall be used for paying the costs of administering the State plan or for aid to the blind, or both, and for no other purpose. ( b ) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as follows : ( 1 ) The Board shall, prior to the beginning of each quarter, estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under provisions of clause ( 1 ) of subsection ( a ), such estimate to be based on ( A ) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total sum to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions of such clause, and stating the amount appropriated or made available by the State and its political subdivisions for such expenditures in such quarter, and if such amount is less than one - half of the total sum of such estimated expenditures, the source or sources from which the difference is expected to be derived, ( B ) records showing the number of blind individuals in the State, and ( C ) such other investigation as the Board may find necessary. ( 2 ) The Board shall then certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount so estimated by the Board, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which it finds that its estimate for any prior quarter was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State under clause ( 1 ) of subsection ( a ) for such quarter, except to the extent that such sum has been applied to make the amount certified for any prior quarter greater or less than the amount estimated by the Board for such prior quarter. ( 3 ) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified, increased by 5 per centum. OPERATION OF STATE PLANS SEC. 1004. In the case of any State plan for aid to the blind which has been approved by the Board, if the Board, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or supervising the administration of such a plan, finds -- ( 1 ) that the plan has been so changed as to impose any residence or citizenship requirement prohibited by section 1002 ( b ), or that in the administration of the plan any such prohibited requirement is imposed, with the knowledge of such State agency, in a substantial number of cases ; or ( 2 ) that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any provision required by section 1002 ( a ) be included in the plan ; the Board shall notify such State agency that further payments will not be made to the State until the Board is satisfied that such prohibited requirement is no longer so imposed, and that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until it is satisfied it shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State. ADMINISTRATION SEC. 1005. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936 the sum of $30,000, for all necessary expenses of the Board in administering the provisions of this title. DEFINITION SEC. 1006. When used in this title the term aid to the blind means money payments to blind individuals. This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( September 2016 ) Amendments Social Security Act Amendments of 1939 H.R. 6635 Approved, August 10, 1939 Public Law 76 - 379 Amendments of 1939 : The original Act provided only retirement benefits, and only to the worker. The 1939 Amendments made a fundamental change in the Social Security program. The Amendments added two new categories of benefits : payments to the spouse and minor children of a retired worker ( called dependents benefits ) and survivors benefits paid to the family in the event of the premature death of the worker. The 1939 Amendments also increased benefit amounts and accelerated the start of monthly benefit payments from 1942 to 1940. War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944 S. 2051 Approved, October 03, 1219 Public Law 78 - 458 Title XII Social Security Act Amendments of 1946 H.R. 7037 Approved, August 10, 1946 Public Law 79 - 719 Title XIII Social Security Act Amendments of 1950 H.R. 6000 Approved August 28, 1950 Public Law 81 - 734 These amendments raised benefits for the first time and placed the program on the road to the virtually universal coverage it has today. Specifically it is the introduction of the cost - of - living adjustment ( COLA ). H.R. 6291 Approved June 28, 1952 Public Law 82 - 420 Social Security Act Amendments of 1952 H.R. 7800 Approved, July 18, 1952 Public Law 82 - 590 Social Security Act Amendments of 1954 H.R. 9366 Approved September 01, 1954 Public Law 83 - 761 H.R. 9709 Approved September 01, 1954 Public Law 83 - 767 Title XV Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963 H.R. 7544 Approved, October 24, 1963 Public Law 88 - 156 Title XVII Social Security Amendments of 1965 H.R. 6675 Approved, July 30, 1965 Public Law 89 - 97 Title XVIII Title XIX Constitutional litigation In the 1930s, the Supreme Court struck down many pieces of Roosevelt 's New Deal legislation, including the Railroad Retirement Act. The Court threw out a centerpiece of the New Deal, the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and New York State 's minimum - wage law. President Roosevelt responded with an attempt to pack the court via the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937. On February 5, 1937, he sent a special message to Congress proposing legislation granting the President new powers to add additional judges to all federal courts whenever there were sitting judges age 70 or older who refused to retire. The practical effect of this proposal was that the President would get to appoint six new Justices to the Supreme Court ( and 44 judges to lower federal courts ), thus instantly tipping the political balance on the Court dramatically in his favor. The debate on this proposal lasted over six months. Beginning with a set of decisions in March, April, and May 1937 ( including the Social Security Act cases ), the Court would sustain a series of New Deal legislation Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes played a leading role in defeating the court - packing by rushing these pieces of New Deal legislation through and ensuring that the court 's majority would uphold it. In March 1937, Associate Justice Owen Roberts, who had previously sided with the court 's four conservative justices, shocked the American public by siding with Hughes and the court 's three liberal justices in striking down the court 's previous decision in the 1923 case Adkins v. Children 's Hospital, which held that minimum wage laws were a violation of the Fifth Amendment 's due process clause and were thus unconstitutional, and upheld the constitutionality of Washington state 's minimum wage law in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish. In 1936, Roberts joined the four conservative justices in using the Adkins decision to strike down a similar minimum wage law New York state enforced in Morehead v. New York ex rel. Tipaldo and his decision to reverse his previous vote in the Morehead decision would be known as the switch in time that saved nine. In spite of widespread speculation that Roberts only agreed to join the court 's majority in upholding New Deal legislation, such as the Social Security Act, during the spring of 1937 because of the court packing plan, Hughes wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt 's court reform proposal `` had not the slightest effect on our ( the court 's ) decision '' in the Parrish case and that the delayed announcement of the decision created the false impression that the Court had retreated under fire. Following the vast support that was demonstrated for the New Deal through Roosevelt 's re-election in 1936, Hughes persuaded Roberts to no longer base his decisions on political maneuvering and side with him in future cases that involved New Deal legislation Records show Roberts had indicated his desire to overturn the Adkins decision two days after oral arguments concluded for the Parrish case on December 19, 1936. During this time, however, the court was divided 4 - 4 following the initial conference call because Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, one of the three liberal justices who continuously voted to uphold New Deal legislation, was absent due to an illness ; with this even division on the Court, the holding of the Washington Supreme Court, finding the minimum wage statute constitutional, would stand. As Hughes desired a clear and strong 5 -- 4 affirmation of the Washington Supreme Court judgment, rather than a 4 -- 4 default affirmation, he convinced the other justices to wait until Stone 's return before both deciding and announcing the case. US Supreme Court cases Two Supreme Court rulings affirmed the constitutionality of the Social Security Act. Steward Machine Company v. Davis, 301 U.S, 548 ( 1937 ) held, in a 5 -- 4 decision, that, given the exigencies of the Great Depression, `` ( It ) is too late today for the argument to be heard with tolerance that in a crisis so extreme the use of the moneys of the nation to relieve the unemployed and their dependents is a use for any purpose narrower than the promotion of the general welfare ''. The arguments opposed to the Social Security Act ( articulated by justices Butler, McReynolds, and Sutherland in their opinions ) were that the social security act went beyond the powers that were granted to the federal government in the Constitution. They argued that, by imposing a tax on employers that could be avoided only by contributing to a state unemployment - compensation fund, the federal government was essentially forcing each state to establish an unemployment - compensation fund that would meet its criteria, and that the federal government had no power to enact such a program. Helvering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619 ( 1937 ), decided on the same day as Steward, upheld the program because `` The proceeds of both ( employee and employer ) taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like internal - revenue taxes generally, and are not earmarked in any way ''. That is, the Social Security Tax was constitutional as a mere exercise of Congress 's general taxation powers. Other cases Flemming v. Nestor, 363 US 603 ( 1960 ) upholding § 1104, allowing Congress to itself amend and revise the schedule of benefits. Further, however, recipients of benefits had no contractual rights to them. Goldberg v. Kelly 397 US 254 ( 1970 ) William Brennan, Jr. held there must be an evidentiary hearing before a recipient can be deprived of government benefits under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld ( 1975 ) held that a male widower should be entitled to his deceased wife 's benefit just as a female widow was entitled to a deceased husband 's, under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. See also US labor law List of Social Security legislation ( United States ) Notes Jump up ^ `` History 1930 ''. Social Security Administration. Retrieved May 21, 2009. Jump up ^ Butler, Chris. `` '' The Social Impact of Industrialization, '' The Flow of History ``. Flow of History. Retrieved 24 October 2016. Jump up ^ https://www.ssa.gov/history/35act.html Jump up ^ Achene, Andrew ( 1986 ). Social Security Visions and Revisions. New York : Cambridge University Press. p. 25 - 6. Jump up ^ `` Social Security History. '' Social Security Administration, SSA, www.ssa.gov/history/35act.html. Jump up ^ Supremecourthistory.org Archived October 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` Social Security Administration ''. Ssa.gov. Retrieved 2011 - 09 - 11. Jump up ^ www.historycooperative.org ( 11 ) Archived March 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine... Historycooperative.org. Retrieved on 2013 - 08 - 12. Jump up ^ 298 U.S. 587 ( 1936 ) ^ Jump up to : McKenna, Marian C. ( 2002 ). Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War : The Court - packing Crisis of 1937. New York, NY : Fordham University Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8232 - 2154 - 7. Jump up ^ `` Steward Machine Company vs. Davis, 301 U.S, 548 ''. Archived from the original on November 28, 2005. Retrieved December 3, 2005. 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Question: who signed the social security act of 1935
Answer: President Franklin D. Roosevelt