Old-Age and Survivors Insurance: Retirement Test Under the 1954 Amendments
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On September 1. President Eisenhower signed the Social Security Amendments of 1954 (Public Law No. 761). The new law makes major changes in the retirement test, which in various forms has been a condition for receipt of benefits ever since Congress passed the Social Security Act in 1935. The philosophy underlying the provisions and the changes made by the 1954 amendments are reported in the following pages.
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