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The Social Security Amendments of 1965, Pub. L. 89–97, 79 Stat. 286, enacted July 30, 1965, was legislation in the United States whose most important provisions resulted in creation of two programs: Medicare and Medicaid. The legislation initially provided federal health insurance for the elderly (over 65) and for financially challenged families.
1956 - Social Security Amendments of 1956, Pub. L. 84–880; 1958 - Social Security Amendments of 1958, Pub. L. 85–840; 1960 - Social Security Amendments of 1960, Pub. L. 86–778; 1961 - Social Security Amendments of 1961, Pub. L. 87–64; 1965 - Social Security Amendments of 1965, Pub. L. 89–97; 1966 - Tax Adjustment Act of 1966, Pub. L ...
The Social Security Act's similarity with the Railroad Retirement Act caused Edwin Witte, the executive director of the President's Committee on Economic Security under Roosevelt who was credited as "the father of social security," [26] to question whether or not the bill would pass; [27] John Gall, an Associate Counsel for the National ...
The father of the social safety net, FDR signed the Social Security Bill into law on Aug. 14, 1935. He had called on Congress to craft a social insurance policy just 14 months before the bill ...
Some of its landmark legislation includes Social Security Amendments of 1965 (the creation of Medicare and Medicaid), the Voting Rights Act, Higher Education Act, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
The Social Security Fairness Act, one of the most bipartisan bills in Congress this session, aims to repeal WEP and GPO. The House voted to pass the legislation Nov. 12, and the Senate approved it ...
Efforts to get the Senate to vote on a bill to expand Social Security benefits are intensifying, ... The bill "dies December 31, at the end of the second session of Congress," Benton said. "Not ...
Medicaid was created on July 30, 1965, under Title XIX of the Social Security Act of 1965. Each state administers its own Medicaid program while the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) monitors the state-run programs and establishes requirements for service delivery, quality, funding, and eligibility standards.