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Show Social Security Board Would Assist All People Who Have No Means of Support The social security board recommends recom-mends expansion of the present social so-cial security program to provide: 1. Social insurance protection for everybody who depends on wages or salary (for the self-employed also, so far as possible). Regular insurance insur-ance benefits would take the place, partly, of the pay the worker and his family lose (a) When he loses his job and is temporarily unemployed. (b) When he is unable to work be cause sick or disabled, temporarily tempo-rarily or permanently (the insurance in-surance should cover also costs of hospital care for the worker work-er and his family). (c) When he is old and no longer at work. (d) When he dies. 2. The cost of this insurance to be met through contributions from workers and their employers into one national insurance fund in the U. S. treasury. 3. Assistance to all needy people who have no means of support. "This is one case," said President Presi-dent Roosevelt, "in which social and fiscal objectives, war and post-war aims are in full accord. Expanded, social security, together with other fiscal measures, would set up a bulwark bul-wark of economic security for the people now and after the war and at the same time would provide anti-inflationary anti-inflationary sources for financing the I war." |