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What About Disability?

From Social Security Disability and You – A Guide to Winning the Benefits You Deserve Despite the fact that it was now providing solid benefits to retirees, Social Security at this early stage did nothing for the disabled.

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A History of Social Security – Part II

Nearly everybody who looks at the history of Social Security points to one period as the most important in making a program as we know it today. What was that dynamic era?

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The Social Security Act

From Social Security Disability and You – A Guide to Winning the Benefits You Deserve By:  Charles E. Binder In January 1935, President Roosevelt received a report from his Council on Economic Security.  Their findings became the basis for the bill that FDR brought to Congress, which then became the Social Security Act. 

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A History of Social Security – Part I

Nearly everybody who looks at the history of Social Security points to one period as the most important in making a program as we know it today. What was that dynamic era?

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