Question: When did the welfare system began in the us?

Disambiguated questions and answers:
context: Prior to the Great Depression the United States had social programs that mostly centered around individual efforts, family efforts, church charities, business workers compensation, life insurance and sick leave programs along with some state tax supported social programs. The misery and poverty of the great depression threatened to overwhelm all these programs. The severe Depression of the 1930s made Federal action necessary, as neither the states and the local communities, businesses and industries, nor private charities had the financial resources to cope with the growing need among the American people. Beginning in 1932, the Federal Government first made loans, then grants, to states to pay for direct relief and work relief. After that, special Federal emergency relief like the Civilian Conservation Corps and other public works programs were started. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration proposed to Congress federal social relief programs and a federally sponsored retirement program. Congress followed by the passage of the 37 page Social Security Act, signed into law August 14, 1935 and "effective" by 1939—just as World War II began. This program was expanded several times over the years.
question: When did the first major federal welfare agency began in the us?
short_answers: 1935
wikipage: Social programs in the United States
context: Colonial legislatures and later State governments adopted legislation patterned after the English "poor" laws. Aid to veterans, often free grants of land, and pensions for widows and handicapped veterans, have been offered in all U.S. wars. Following World War I, provisions were made for a full-scale system of hospital and medical care benefits for veterans. By 1929, workers' compensation laws were in effect in all but four states. These state laws made industry and businesses responsible for the costs of compensating workers or their survivors when the worker was injured or killed in connection with his or her job. Retirement programs for mainly State and local government paid teachers, police officers, and fire fighters—date back to the 19th century. All these social programs were far from universal and varied considerably from one state to another.
question: When did workers' compensation laws in all but four states began in the us?
short_answers: 1929
wikipage: Social programs in the United States

Long-form answers:
long_answer: Laws that made industry and businesses responsible for the costs of compensating workers or their survivors when the worker was injured or killed in connection with his or her job where in effect in all but four states by 1929. Adding to this, the first welfare system in the US began during the Great Depression, when widespread misery and poverty threatened to overwhelm the existing social programs that existed in the US, most of which centered around individual efforts, family efforts, church charities, business workers compensation, life insurance and sick leave programs. Due to this , in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration proposed to Congress federal social relief programs and a federally sponsored retirement program that was followed by the passage of the Social Security Act, signed into law August 14, 1935.