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4/5/1935 The US House of Representatives began debate on The Social Security Act of 1935.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/history/senate35.html

4/5/1944 The United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, held that money paid to a widow, after the death of her wage-earner husband pursuant to a back-pay award by the National Labor Relations Board entered after the wage earner's death, did not constitute wages as defined in the original Social Security Act because it was not remuneration for employment.
More on, Social Security and Vulnerable Groups—Policy Options to Aid Widows: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46182

4/5/1948, President Truman vetoed H.R. 5052, a bill to exclude vendors of newspapers and magazines from social security coverage.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v11n7/v11n7p3.pdf
 
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Social Security History, Women's History Month Edition Five:

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In honor of Women's History Month, here is compilation of pioneering women in the history of the Social Security in America.

For more information and profiles of these and other notable individuals, please visit Social Security Pioneers: Women https://lnkd.in/eMcpqDui

Edition One https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-ssahistgwc-activity-7304145264494202881-jgP9/ featured an expanded profile of Frances Perkins, Labor Secretary during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration and the driving force behind many of the progressive reforms underpinning America's post war success.

Edition Two: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-ssahistgwc-activity-7306659783049134080-91cU/

Edition Three: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-ssahistgwc-activity-7308871625263771649-EQok/

Edition Four - Shirtwaist Factory Fire: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_socialsecurityat90-strongertogether-wearenotgoingback-activity-7310303274081923072-TrVe/

Edition Five:
Martha A. McSteen (1923 - 1983)
Margaret M. Heckler (1931 - 2018)
Donna E. Shalala (1941 - )
Jane L. Ross (1942 - 2024)
Dorcas R. Hardy (1946 - 2019)Gwendolyn S. King (1940- )
Shirley Sears Chater (1932 - )
Jo Anne B. Barnhart (1950 - )
Yvette S. Jackson

More Social Security history: https://www.ssa.gov/history & #SSAHistGWC 

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" Resolved, That the General Court of Massachusetts favors the immediate enactment by Congress of suitable legislation creating a national compulsory unemployment-insurance..." F.W. Cook, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the US House of Representatives. https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/h416.pdf

3/27/1960 (March 27 - April 2, 1960) The sixth White House Conference on Children and Youth was held.
More: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED078896.pdf

3/27/1969 (March 27 & May 21, 1969) President Nixon signed the Reorganization Act. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-establishing-common-regional-boundaries-for-agencies-providing-social-and

3/27/1891 SSA awarded a commu­nications terminal replacement contract to the Paradyne Corp. of Largo, Florida. See: The Paradyne Affair (Pg. 126) - https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/ota86.pdf

3/27/2006 SSA published its Disability Service Improvement initiative. https://s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/cg-778536a2-e58c-44f1-9173-29749804ec54/uploads/2023/12/2006-HearingProcess_2006.pdf
 
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