Social Security Amendments of 1960: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12580, an Act to Extend and Improve Coverage Under the Federal Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance System and to Remove Hardships and Inequities, Improve the Financing of the Trust Funds, and Provide Disability Benefits to Additional Individuals Under Such System; to Provide Grants to States for Medical Care for Aged Individuals of Low Income; to Amend the Public Assistance, and Maternal, and Child Welfare Provisions of the Social Scurity Act; to Improve the Unemployment Compensation Provisions of Such Act; and for Other Purposes, June 29, 30, 1960

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Page 49 - ... (5) provide such methods of administration (including methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis, except that the Secretary shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, tenure of office, and compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such methods) as are found by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan...
Page 54 - ... (1) any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, shall be appointed for the remainder of such term...
Page 475 - Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan; (6) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as the Secretary may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports...
Page 317 - Chinese society will enter the era of communism in which the principle of 'from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs
Page 53 - Federal share" for any State shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the continental United States (excluding Alaska), except that (1) the Federal share...
Page 382 - I resigned to become dean of the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University.
Page 479 - For purposes of paragraph (1), an individual shall be considered to be disabled if he is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or to be of longcontinued and indefinite duration.
Page 3 - Such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.
Page 50 - July 1, 1953, provide, if the plan includes payments to individuals in private or public institutions, for the establishment or designation of a State authority or authorities which shall be responsible for establishing and maintaining standards for such institutions...
Page 506 - Atomic Energy Act of 1954'." SEC. 2.— a. Section 1 (d) of the Act of December 29, 1950 (64 Stat. 1129), is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof a semicolon and the following: "when such order was entered by the Atomic Energy Commission, 'agency

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