General question on the Old Age Tax Assistance program
I know the Old Age Tax Assistance Program was created in 1934, but why did it stop? Was it because Social Security was made and there was no need for a program to exist? Also, where can I find images of these records?
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For Iowa, the index is on FamilySearch. Images can be viewed at FamilySearch Centers and Affiliate Libraries.
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The Great Depression led to increased congressional support for a national old-age insurance system. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, which created a new solution to the problem of old-age pensions. The Social Security Act created a system of "insurance" that was funded by taxes on wages and employers' payrolls, rather than government funds.
Records prior to 1935 are found in individual States records.
https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/state-archives.html
So as 1934 dawned the nation was deep in the throes of the Depression. Confidence in the old institutions was shaken. Social changes that started with the Industrial Revolution had long ago passed the point of no return. The traditional sources of economic security: assets; labor; family; and charity, had all failed in one degree or another. Radical proposals for action were springing like weeds from the soil of the nation's discontent. President Franklin Roosevelt would choose the social insurance approach as the "cornerstone" of his attempts to deal with the problem of economic security.
The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. In addition to several provisions for general welfare, the new Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.
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