Workers Registering for Jobs and Benefit Claims
8/1935
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On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. This image shows unemployed insured workers registering for jobs and filing benefit claims at a State employment office.
This primary source comes from the Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs.
National Archives Identifier: 195881
Full Citation: Social Security 'Unemployed insured workers registering for jobs and filing benefit claims at a State employment office.'; 8/1935; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962; Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/workers-registering-jobs-benefit-claims, October 12, 2024]Activities that use this document
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