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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Cohe Divisions of Social Security There are ten separate programs provided for the Social Security Act. Those programs include much of the area covered in the ‘‘Cradle to Grave’’ plan recently suggested, but under the present act, no provision is made for an adult who is a victim of illness, particularly if he is between the ages of 16 and 65. Such a person is strictly on ‘‘state relief’’ if he is sick and has no funds nor friends capable of supporting him and paying his medical bills. The ten provisions of the present law are administered on the Federal level by the Social Security Board, the Public Health Service, and the Office of Edueation (all now part of the Federal Security Agency) and the Children’s Bureau, which is under the Department of Labor. On the state level these provisions are administered by the Industrial Commission of Utah, the State Department of Public Health, the State School Office and the State and Coun- Manpower (Continued Resources-- from preceding page) nore its possibilities for relieving the labor crisis. Moreover, collective bargaining and labor organizations constitute a balance wheel and bulwark of democracy. CIVILIAN The be, that by Mr. for the BUSINESS SHOULD COOPERATE further conclusion is clear, or should if those civilian enterprises sponsored Backman are to continue to function duration, they may do so only after the manpower needs have been met. of essential industries ‘That being the case those concerns should insist that the maximum utilization of man and womanpower in war industries should be made—through labor-management production committees, and otherwise—in order that @ivilian economy may be held together. No excuse is acceptable for failure to tap that relatively untouched source of competent manpower waiting to be organized. If managers of industry now lack the vision to enlist all possible aid, regardless of their personal prejudices, then they may thank only their own stupidity for another black mark against ‘“‘Hree Enterprise’’. ty Departments of Public Welfare. The ten programs of the present law are: Old Age and Survivors Insurance; Unemployment Insurance; Old Age Assistance (Aid to Needy Aged); Aid to Needy Blind; Aid to Dependent Children; Child Welfare; Vocational Rehabilitation; Enlarged Public Health Service; Maternal and Child Health; and Aid to Crippled Children. Five of the provisions of the Social Security Act are administered on the Federal level by the Social Security Board. These are: Old Age Insurance; Unemployment Insurance; and Aid to the Needy Aged, Blind, and Dependent Children. Old Age Insurance is strictly a Federal proposition. No state agency has any part in the administration of it. The employer deducts one per cent from the salary of each covered worker which he sends to the Federal treasury together with a like amount from his own funds. The covered worker then builds up certain pension rights which will provide him with specified benefits when he reaches the age of 65, or provides certain benefits for his family in case he dies before he reaches the age of 85. ‘These will be discussed briefly in a later article. Unemployment insurance is a state-operated program which must conform to certain requirements set forth in the Social Security Act. The Federal government has no part in the administration of Unemployment Insurance, except to see that states maintain the broad standards required under the Social Security Act. In Utah, the Industrial Commission is the agency responsible and the Commission, in accordance with the law, has established the Department of Employment Security to actually administer the Employment Security Act as Utah’s unemployment compensation law is officially titled. The question often is asked, why does the Federal government administer the Old Age Insurance law itself and the separate states administer the unemployment insurance laws? The chief answer is that a man reaches the age of 65 only once and a central agency which (Continued on page 8) |