Social Security was designed to provide financial help to Americans in need. It provided monthly payments to America’s older citizens, money to help the unemployed survive while they searched for jobs, and aided other Americans needed assistance. Roosevelt believed that the government was responsible for the financial health of American citizens. The economic security of the people of the United States was very important. This program was funded by the tax dollars of employers and their employees rather than straight from the government. This made it so that people had to work to collect their social security instead of it just being given to them. While this was a federal program, the state government had control of the amount one would receive
