Claim: "Social Security was advocated … in the 1930s as a way of getting people to quit working, because they thought we were confined to a permanent scarcity of jobs in this country."
Fact-check: George Will says Social Security was created in the 1930s 'as a way of getting people to quit working'
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2014-02-11T00:00:00