Why might the Social Security Act be considered the most important achievement of the New Deal? Think About:
• the types of relief needed in the 1930s
• alternatives to government assistance to the elderly, the unemployed, and the disabled
• the scope of the act
The Social Security Act may have been considered to be the most important achievement of the New Deal because it benefited everyone who needed help and had no other means to get it. Before Social Security if people were unemployed they had no means of aid. Elderly relied on their savings during retirement, and when banks crashed, they lost their money. People with disabled children were unable to have aid for the extra help they needed. The act made it so there was a supplement retire plan so that when a person retires they will have money that the government owes them in order to make sure they can not lose all of their money again. Unemployed people now got payed for a amount of time after they lost their jobs, making it so they had something to live off of while looking for a new job. Families with disabled members of the family now had an aid paid by federal funding, helping the fa miles money wise.
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