On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act was signed into law by current president Franklin D Roosevelt. Roosevelt who had previously became president in 1932 and the middle of the Great Depression follows through with his plans to help those in need with his new deal. programs including the Social Security Act. this act was geared to directly help the lives of millions of Americans with a unique system of paying retired workers 65 years of age and older A continuing income after retirement. It also provided benefits for victims of industrial accidents along with unemployment insurance aid for mothers with children the Blind and the physically handicapped and this time. Old age poverty unemployment and fatherless children were seen as very
