SOCIAL SECURITY REVISION

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H. R. 6000

AN ACT TO EXTEND AND IMPROVE THE
FEDERAL OLD-AGE AND SURVIVORS
INSURANCE SYSTEM, TO AMEND THE
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND CHILD WELFARE
PROVISIONS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY
ACT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

PART 1

TESTIMONY AND RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

JANUARY 17, 18, 19, AND 20, 1950

Printed for the use of the Committee on Finance

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1950

CONTENTS

Statement of-

Altmeyer, Arthur J., Commissioner for Social Security, Social Security

Administration..

Page

19, 45, 79, 129

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144

Hoey, Jane M., Director, Bureau of Public Assistance, Social Security
Administration__

Lenroot, Katharine F., Chief, Children's Bureau, Social Security Ad-
ministration__.

Additional information submitted for the record by-

George, Senator Walter F.:

Major differences in present social-security law recommendations

of Advisory Council, and H. R. 6000, table---

Social Security Administration:

Aged and child beneficiaries, etc., under Social Security Act,

February 1936-November 1949, chart.

2

Aged OASI beneficiaries receiving old-age assistance, percent,

chart__

Assets of farmers, including equities in farms.

Average per capita income, 1946-48, chart_

Benefit formulas, present and proposed, table_

Benefits and reserves as percent of taxable wages, June 30, 1949,

chart

Comments on report of Senate Advisory Council.

Contributions paid in respect to those now receiving benefits..

Cost of living statistics in various United States cities..

Disabled persons, statement regarding statistics of..

Employed civilian labor force in employment covered by old-age

and survivors insurance, estimated percent, April 1947, chart__

Employed labor force in covered and noncovered employment
under H. R. 6000, chart---

Farm operators and farm workers and OASI, chart__.

Federal participation in payments of public assistance, provisions
for, chart..

General assistance: Distribution of expenditures for assistance by

source of funds, fiscal year 1948-49, chart--

Income of persons 65 and over, 1948, table..

Insured and uninsured workers with wage credits, number and

proportion, 1940–50, table..

Level premium costs of H. R. 2893 and H. R. 6000 compared with

present act, intermediate estimate, chart_

Liquid asset holdings within various income groups, 1949, table.

Male urban self-employed and wage earners by age, distribution

of, table...

Marital status of persons 65 years and over, June 1949, table---.

Monthly number of children receiving aid to dependent children

and recipient rates, June 1940-49, chart.

114

OASI administrative expenses as a percent of benefit payments,

chart

109

OASI administrative expenses as a percent of contributions col-

lected, chart_

107

OASI aged beneficiaries and OAA recipients, June 1946, chart.

OASI average primary benefits and consumers' prices, 1940-49,

chart.

100

105

OASI beneficiaries at end of each year, 1940-49, chart

OASI primary benefits, end of 1948, chart.

106

103

Payments for all public aid, 1935-49, chart..

81

Percentage distribution of workers in covered employment under
old-age and survivors insurance, etc., Jan. 1, 1947, table..

32