AID FOR THE NEEDY
AMERICAN PROGRAMME PROMISE BY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. In a broadcast to the nation, President Roosevelt promised that the relief programme covered by the Social Security Act would be expanded to include all persons in need of protection. The first section of the United States Social Security Act of 1935 provides for old-age pensions for about 1,323,000 persons over the age of 65, provides for about 165,000 women without means and with dependants, and provides for about 35,000 blind persons from funds provided half by the Federal Government and half by the States. The Administration plans to provide eventually for all the unemployed by means of contributions from employers and employees, raised by a pay-roll tax. This unemployment insurance will be operative in all the States by 1939. The pressure on the States to come into the scheme is induced by the fact that, until they do so, the proceeds of the pay-roll tax from the States are retained by the Federal authorities.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23593, 1 September 1938, Page 11
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