Old-age Pensions: Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate the Old-age Pension System, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S.Res. 129, a Resolution Appointing a Special Committee to Investigate the Operation of the Old-age Pension System and Means for Securing Minimum Pensions Thereunder ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 |
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$25 a month aged persons ALTMEYER amendment amount annuity answer assume average monthly wage average payment basis beneficiaries California capita income census CHAIRMAN chart citizens committee Congress contributions contributors dependent disability Doctor earnings economic employees estimate exhibit fact FALK farm Federal Government fund give going increase individual industrial insurance benefits insurance system January labor force less mean ment million monthly benefit national income needy North Carolina North Dakota number of persons old-age and survivors old-age assistance old-age insurance OLD-AGE PENSION past 65 percentage period policies population present production proportion question receive recipient retirement Rhode Island savings Senator BROOKS Senator CONNALLY Senator Downey Senator GREEN Senator PEPPER Senator THOMAS SHEARON Sheridan Downey Social Security Act Social Security Board statement survivors insurance tion wage earner widow wife workers
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Page 1 - Congress, to employ such clerical and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Page 1 - For the purposes of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such times and places during the sessions...
Page 160 - The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit annually to the Bureau of the Budget an estimate of the appropriations to be made to the Account.
Page 1 - ... books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as It deems advisable, The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $25,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman.
Page 1 - ... to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $30,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee or the chairman of any duly authorized subcommittee thereof.
Page 225 - Bureau have been taken over by the Bureau of Research and Statistics of the Social Security Board (1936).
Page 71 - Secretary may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; (7) provide safeguards which restrict the use or disclosure of information concerning applicants and recipients to purposes directly connected with the administration...
Page 152 - The maintenance budget is not so liberal as that for a "health and decency" level which the skilled worker may hope to obtain, 'but it affords more than a "minimum of subsistence
Page 234 - ... two-fifths to one-half were dependent on friends and relatives; one-eighth had some income from earnings; and possibly one-sixth had some savings or property. Approximately three out of four persons 65 or over were probably dependent wholly or partially on others for support.
Page 61 - ... afforded as a matter of right, related to past participation in the productive processes of the country. It is only through the encouragement of individual incentive, through the principle of paying benefits in relation to past wages and employment, that a sound and lasting basis for security can be afforded.