How did social security start?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in August 1935. The first one-time, lump-sum payments were made in January 1937, and regular monthly benefits were first paid in January 1940.
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You MUST have their social security numbe to begin doing anything.
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Um, you need to work to collect social security.  You need, like, forty quarters of work.  That's at least ten years.  i don't think the story you "heard" is at all accurate.  Without some sort of verifiable facts, I would ignore this particular anecdote.
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yeah, in witness protection program. otherwise you have to die and be ressurected in america\n\nyou can start over any time though, its a tough process but at the end you would be the person you would want yourself to be with a new social security number. I hear the credit report and the history only goes up to 7 years on file since the date of repayment.
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In the United States, a Social Security number (or SSN) is a number issued to citizens, permanent residents, and temporary (working) residents under section 205(c)(2) of the Social Security Act, codified as 42 U.S.C. § 405(c)(2). The number is issued to an individual by the Social Security Administration, an agency of the federal government. Ostensibly, its primary purpose is tracking working individuals for taxation purposes and to track Social Security benefits. However, in recent years, the SSN has become a de facto national identification number, even though it is not supposed to be used as a form of identification.\nGenerally, numbers were assigned beginning in the northeast and moving westward. So people on the east coast have the lowest numbers and those on the west coast have the highest numbers. As the areas assigned to a locality are exhausted, new areas from the pool are assigned, so some states have noncontiguous groups of numbers.\n\nComplete list of area number groups from the Social Security Administration \nThe middle two digits are the group number. They have no special geographic or data significance but merely serve to break the number into conveniently sized blocks for orderly issuance. \nThere is a theory that the two middle digits can be used to identify a person's ethnic background. African Americans, Asians and people of color will almost always have an odd middle number, while Caucasians will have an even number. This is debunked as an urban legend on snopes.com. \nThe group numbers range from 01 to 99. However, they are not assigned in consecutive order. For administrative reasons, group numbers are issued in the following order:\n\nODD numbers from 01 through 09\n\nEVEN numbers from 10 through 98\n\nEVEN numbers from 02 through 08\n\nODD numbers from 11 through 99\n\nAs an example, group number 98 will be issued before 11.\n\n\n\n\nThe last four digits are serial numbers. They represent a straight numerical sequence of digits from 0001-9999 within the group.
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The Social Security office could help you with this question much more than the "public at large" can help you.  SS has strict guidlines about people who work after retiring, all according to the age of retirement.
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Contact the Social Security Administration.
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Jan 31, 1940.  Franklin D. Roosevelt was president.\n\nUnfortunately, don't know when the check was cashed and money was first deducted from the social security fund.  Hopefully this will point you in the right direction.
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The age that you retire and the age that you start collecting social security benefits can be 2 different ages, so one doesnt necessarily have anything to do with the other.\n\nYou need to do what's called a 'Needs Assessment'.  The best time to retire is when you have 'enough' money.  You need to consider ALL financial sources -- personal savings, 401Ks, IRAs, pension plans, social security as well as the possibility of part-time post-retirement work.\n\nLook at your needs and how much you could have coming to you as income from all sources.  Once you know your needs, project everything out (based on average inflation) for your life expectancy to see if you have enough.
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social security reform?
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There is currently a YEARLY surplus of Social Security  withholding that is being generated by boomers being at their highest lifetime earning levels, and a not-yet increased demand for Social security payments.  It is decreasing fast.\nThis surplus is 'borrowed' into the general budget of the United States.\nIn order to pay Social security back, taxes would have to be increased, because...we just borrowed that money from ourselves.\n\nIf people stop contributing into Social security and start putting money into Individual Investment accounts, the Social Security payments will not have enough SS withholding to pay them - in other words, the people who paid into Social Security all their lives would face a insolvent fund.\n\nOnce you put your money into a Social Security personal investment (with a contracted outside investment company) your investment has the same pitfalls that private investing has.  It can suddenly lose half it's value during a market correction, it can be lost entirely should the country go through one of the downturns that usually happen about every 50 years...\n\nPanics, recessions and Depression are cyclical economic downturns that have roiled this country on a regular basis since it's birth.  They are characterized by bank failures, bankruptcies, foreclosures, business failures, and declines in property values.  Before the very recent creation of Social security, the term for retirement during an economic downturn was PAUPER.
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As others have said, Unemployment is not related to Social Security.  Asking if anything "comes out of your Social Security" seams to indicate you are under the common misconception that you have a social security account.  The social security taxes you pay are used to pay benefits to current recipients and most people receive more than they 'pay in'.  The so called 'trust fund' is a collection of IOUs from the federal government.
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Go to your local social security office.\n\nCoach
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I believe we must be allowed to invest the 7.5% of our pay taken every payday for social security ourselves.  As an experiment the SS Admin. allowed the city of Galveston, TX. to withdraw from the SS system about 35 years ago.  The citizens of Galveston were allowed to privately invest there 7.5% them selves.  Now the average citizen in Galveston is retiring with 4 to 5 times the amount of money than the national average of citizens drawing SS benefits.
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FICA is better known as Social Security. Franklin Roosevelt signed it into law in August, 1935. The first SS checks were issued in 1937.\n\nHere is the history from the Social Security administration:\nhttp://www.ssa.gov/history/1930.html
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Welfare started with the Social programs instituted during the depression when there were a lot of genuinely poor people who had a real need. It was expanded greatly during the 60s with LBJ's "war on poverty". \nIf you don't believe in artificial birth control, use natural methods. If that doesn't work then, since you were doing it for Religious purposes, you will know and accept the gift of a child as God's will. There are a lot more important things than maintaining a lavish lifestyle and more important things than material goods. I think that you already know that. \nMy parents had 10 children (Catholic). We didn't have a lot of money, however we had family and love that was worth much more than money, a nice car, expensive clothes, or the latest biggest color TV and stereo. My Dad worked hard, we never went on welfare, and we were happy. Today we have the greatest gifts of all, faith in a loving God and a joyful loving and close BIG family. Whatever God wills for you, be grateful.
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Several laws, state and federal.\n\nThe authority for the federal government to levy (require) taxes comes from Article I Section 8 of the Constitution, while the authority for federal income taxes comes from the 16th Amendment.\n\nThe federal Social Security Act was passed in 1935, and found valid by the Supreme Court in 1937 as part of federal power to levy taxes (See Article I Section 8).\n\nState constitutions may also authorize taxes or equivalent unemployment/retirement programs. Also, states can impose other taxes based on their general regulatory powers.