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Social Secutiry Act of 1935

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Passed by the Presidents Committe on National Security during Roosevelts first term, under Frances Perkins, the social security act was instituted to try and take out the dangers in a standard life. This included old age, unemployment, poverty, and thechance of having a fatherless child. When you were a worker part of your pay check went to your benefits and when you retired you recieved these benefits to live off of. By doing this President Roosevelt was the first president to federally assist the elderly. It mostly benefited the elderly but it also gave aid to families with dependent children, public health insurance, public health services, and the blind. Not all of the deal was passed one of the main points of the deal, the National Industry Relations act, was discarded including the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the New York s minimum wage law. ======