COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
UNITED STATES SENATE

Harry Flood Byrd, Chairman

JUNE 24, 1960

MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN THE PRESENT SOCIAL

SECURITY LAW AND H.R. 12580 AS PASSED BY

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Printed for the use of the Committee on Finance

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 1960

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COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

HARRY FLOOD BYRD, Virginia, Chairman ROBERT 8. KERR, Oklahoma

JOHN J. WILLIAMS, Delaware J. ALLEN FREAR, JR., Delaware

FRANK CARLSON, Kansas RUSSELL B. LONG, Louisiana

WALLACE F. BENNETT, Utah GEORGE A. SMATHERS, Florida

JOHN MARSHALL BUTLER, Maryland CLINTON P, ANDERSON, New Mexico CARL T. CURTIS, Nebraska PAUL H. DOUGLAS, Dlinois

THRUSTON B. MORTON, Kentucky ALBERT GORE, Tennessee HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Georgia EUGENE J. MCCARTHY, Minnesota VANCE HARTKE, Indiana

ELIZABETH B. SPRINGER, Chief Clerk

CONTENTS

OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS, AND DISABILITY INSURANCE

I. Coverage

A. Self-employed

1. Professional groups

2. Ministers

B. Employees

1. Domestic workers

2. Casual labor

3. State and local government employees

4. Employees of nonprofit organizations

5. Family employment

C. Geographical scope

II. Provisions relating to permanent and total disability

A. Nature of the provisions

1. Benefits

2. Disability "freeze"

B. Eligibility requirements

1. Definition

2. Waiting period

3. Work requirement

C. Rehabilitation

III. Eligibility for benefits

A. Insured status

B. Survivors or workers who died prior to 1940

C. Widowers of workers who died prior to 1950

D. Children born or adopted after parent's disability

E. Dependency of stepchild on natural father

F. Time needed to acquire status of wife, child, or husband for retirement or disability benefit purposes

G. Invalid marriages

H. Lump sum death payment

IV. Benefit amounts

A. Computing average monthly wage

B. Child's survivor benefit

V. Financing

A. Investment of the trust funds

B. Review of status of trust funds

1. Board of Trustees

2. Advisory Council

C. Maximum taxable amount

D. Tax rate for self-employed

E. Tax rate for employees and employers

MEDICAL SERVICES FOR THE AGED

(New Title XIV)

I. Purpose

II. Scope of benefits

III. Eligibility for benefits

IV. Beginning date

V. Planning grants

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE I. Old-age assistance medical program

A. Matching formula

B. Definition of old-age assistance
II. Medical care guides and reports
III. Temporary extension of certain special provisions relating to State plans for aid to the blind

MATERNAL AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES
I. Maternal and child health services

A. Authorization of annual appropriation
B. Allotment to States

C. Special project grants
II. Crippled children's services

A. Allotment to States
B. Authorization of annual appropriation

C. Special project grants
III. Child welfare services

A. Authorization of annual appropriation
B. Allotment to States
C. Research and demonstration projects

EMPLOYMENT SECURITY (UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION)
I. Coverage
II. Extension to Puerto Rico
III. Administrative financing

A. Federal unemployment tax rate
B. Unemployment trust fund
C. Advances to the States

1. Eligibility for advances
2. Amount of advances
3. Repayment of advances

TABLES ON PUBLIC ASSISTANCE MEDICAL PROGRAMS
Table 1. Summary information on medical care available to old-age assistance recipients through federally aided public