Social Security: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 13549, an Act to Increase Benefits Under the Federal Old-age Survivors, and Disability Insurance System, to Improve the Actuarial Status of the Trust Fund of Such System, and Otherwise Improve Such System; to Amend the Public Assistance, and Maternal and Child Health, and Welfare Provisions of the Social Security Act; and for Other Purposes ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 448 pages |
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Page 288 - ... in determining whether an individual is blind, there shall be an examination by a physician skilled in diseases of the eye or by an optometrist, whichever the individual may select...
Page 163 - Compensation or benefits due under this chapter shall not be assigned, released or commuted except as provided by this chapter, and shall be exempt from all claims of creditors and from levy, execution and attachment or other remedy for recovery or collection of a debt, which exemption may not be waived.
Page 278 - Act, as amended, of $77 million for grants to States for old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and aid to the permanently and totally disabled, in addition to the regular appropriation of $2.083 million previously made available for this purpose.
Page 77 - Act is amended to read as follows: "(a) From the sums appropriated therefor, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for...
Page 281 - An individual who is a citizen of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (but not otherwise a citizen of the United States) shall be considered for purposes of this section, as a citizen of the United States.
Page 168 - includes" and "including" when used in a definition contained in this Act shall not be deemed to exclude other things otherwise within the meaning of the term defined.
Page 167 - Act shall be void; and such rights to benefits shall be exempt from levy, execution, attachment, or any other remedy whatsoever provided for the collection of debt; and benefits received by any individual, so long as they are not mingled with other funds of the recipient, shall be exempt from any remedy whatsoever for the collection of all debts except debts incurred for necessaries furnished to such individual or his spouse...
Page 93 - 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...
Page 281 - State" (except when used in section 531) includes Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia. (2) The term "United States" when used in a geographical sense means the States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia. (3) The term "person" means an individual, a trust or estate, a partnership, or a corporation.
Page 270 - I am taking the liberty of sending a copy of this letter to the other members of your committee.