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Astrue, Commissioner SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION & HOW THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND OWNS SOCIAL SECURITY & THE VATICAN BELIEVES THEY RULE THE WORLD USING US AS SLAVES 2 of 50 Vacant, Deputy Commissioner Website www.ssa.gov One part of SSA headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland Another view of SSA headquarters Social Security Administration From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Administration The United States Social Security Administration (SSA)[2] is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. To qualify for these benefits, most American workers pay Social Security taxes on their earnings; future benefits are based on the employees' contributions. The Social Security Administration was established by a law currently codified at 42 U.S.C. § 901 . Its commissioner, Michael J. Astrue, was sworn in on February 12, 2007 for a six-year term. SSA is headquartered in Woodlawn, Maryland, just to the west of Baltimore, at what is known as Central Office. The agency includes 10 regional offices, 8 processing centers, approximately 1300 field offices, and 37 Teleservice Centers. As of 2007[update], about 62,000 people were employed by the SSA.[3] Social Security is currently the largest social welfare program in the U.S., constituting 37% of government expenditure and 7% of GDP.[4] SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION & HOW THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND OWNS SOCIAL SECURITY & THE VATICAN BELIEVES THEY RULE THE WORLD USING US AS SLAVES 3 of 50 Contents • 1 History • 1.1 Leaders • 1.1.1 Chairmen of Social Security Board • 2 Headquarters • 3 Coverage • 3.1 Old Age, Survivors and Disability • 3.2 Supplemental Security Income (SSI) • 3.3 Medicare • 4 Operations • 4.1 Automation • 4.2 Adjudication • 5 Criticism and controversy • 6 Baby name popularity report • 7 See also • 8 References • 9 External links • 10 Further reading [edit] History The Social Security Act created a Social Security Board (SSB),[5] to oversee the administration of the new program. It was created as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal with the signing of Social Security Act of 1935, August 14, 1935.[6] The Board consisted of three presidentially appointed executives, and started with no budget, no staff, and no furniture. It obtained a temporary budget from the Federal Emergency Relief Administration headed by Harry Hopkins.[5] The first Social Security office opened in Austin, Texas, on October 14, 1936. Social Security taxes were collected first in January 1937, along with the first one-time, lump-sum payments.[6] The first person to receive a Social Security benefit was Ernest Ackerman, who was paid 17 cents in January 1937. This was a one-time, lump-sum pay-out, which was the only form of benefits paid during the start-up period January 1937 through December 1939. The first person to receive monthly retirement benefits was Ida May Fuller of Brattleboro, Vermont. Her first check, dated January 31, 1940 was in the amount of US$22.54.[7] In 1939, the Social Security Board merged into a cabinet-level Federal Security Agency, which included the SSB, the U.S. Public Health Service, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and other agencies.[8] In January 1940, the first regular ongoing monthly benefits were begun.[6] In 1946, the SSB was renamed the Social Security Administration under President Harry S. Truman's Reorganization Plan. In 1972, Cost of Living Adjustments (COLAs) were introduced into SSA programs to deal with the effects of inflation on fixed incomes. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION & HOW THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND OWNS SOCIAL SECURITY & THE VATICAN BELIEVES THEY RULE THE WORLD USING US AS SLAVES 4 of 50 In 1953, the Federal Security Agency was abolished and the SSA was placed under the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. HEW became the Department of Health and Human Services in 1980. In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law 42 U.S.C. § 901 returning the SSA to the status of an independent agency in the executive branch of government. [edit] Leaders [edit] Chairmen of Social Security Board • J ohn G. Winant (1935–1937) • A rthur J. Altmeyer (1937–1956) • Robert M. Ball (1962–1973) [edit] Headquarters The SSA is one of the few Federal agencies to have its headquarters outside of Washington, D.C. It was located in Baltimore initially due to the need for a building that was capable of holding the unprecedented amount of paper records that would be needed. Nothing suitable was available in Washington in 1936, so the Social Security Board selected the Candler Building on Baltimore's harbor as a temporary location. Soon after locating there, construction began on a permanent building for SSA in Washington that would meet their requirements for record storage capacity. However, by the time the new building was completed, World War II had started, and the building was commandeered by the War Department. By the time the war ended, it was judged too disruptive to relocate the agency to Washington. The Agency remained in the Candler Building until 1960, when it relocated to its newly built headquarters in Woodlawn. The road on which the headquarters is located, built especially for the SSA, is named Security Boulevard (Route 122) and has since become one of the major arteries connecting Baltimore with its western suburbs. Security Blvd. is also the name of SSA's exit from the nearby Baltimore Beltway (Interstate 695). A nearby shopping center has been named Security Square Mall, and Woodlawn is often referred to informally as "Security." Interstate 70, which runs for thousands of miles from Utah to Maryland, terminates in a Park and Ride lot that adjoins the SSA campus. Due to space constraints and ongoing renovations, many headquarters employees work in leased space throughout the Woodlawn area. [edit] Coverage The SSA's coverage under the Social Security program originally covered nearly all non-government workers in the continental U.S. and the territories of Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands below the age of 65. All workers in interstate
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