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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.
Medicare and Medicaid were added in 1965 by the Social Security Act of 1965, part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" program. In 1965, the age at which widows could begin collecting benefits was reduced to 60. Widowers were not included in this change.
1946 - Social Security Amendments of 1946, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 79–719. 1947 - Social Security Amendments of 1947, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 80–379. 1948 - Provision for Exclusion of Certain Newspaper and Magazine Vendors from Social Security Coverage, Pub. L.
Thirty years after FDR created the program, Lyndon Johnson expanded Social Security more than any president since the program's inception with the Social Security Act Amendments of 1965, known ...
Social Security Act of 1965 (Created Medicare and Medicaid) – July 30, 1965 The Office of Economic Opportunity was the agency responsible for administering most of the war on poverty programs created during Johnson's Administration, including VISTA , Job Corps , Head Start , Legal Services and the Community Action Program .
Davis. The Social Security Act of 1935 is a law enacted by the 74th United States Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The law created the Social Security program as well as insurance against unemployment. The law was part of Roosevelt's New Deal domestic program. By 1930, the United States was the only modern ...
Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). It was begun in 1965 under the Social Security Administration and is now administered by the Centers ...
In the United States, Social Security is the commonly used term for the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance ( OASDI) program and is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA). [1] The Social Security Act was passed in 1935, [2] and the existing version of the Act, as amended, [3] encompasses several social welfare ...