· by lronlacy.bsky.social ·1d ago · view on bsky.app ↗

#OTD 1935: #SocialSecurityAct 🧵👇 Filing applications SSA's early accounting operations ca 1936 The issuing of #SocialSecurityNumbers & the creation of earnings records on all Americans covered by #SocialSecurity was the largest bookkeeping operation in the history of the world.

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Social Security Administration cardpunch operators. The SSA employed hundreds of cardpunch operators from the late 1930s and into the 1950s to maintain Social Security records until the advent of computers. @livingnewdeal.bsky.social #SocialSecurity #TheNewDeal

lronlacy.bsky.social · 0 · 1d ago

‘Keeping Individual Old-Age Insurance Records’ Social Security Administration Photos: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum @livingnewdeal.bsky.social #SocialSecurity #TheNewDeal