On 8/14/2025, the Social Security Administration commemorated its 90^th anniversary since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935.

The Act established a system of federal income security for the nation's elderly and unemployed during and after the Great Depression including old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, and aid for dependent mothers and children, persons who are blind and persons with disabilities.