The 1946 amendments to the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts.

T H E AMENDMENTS to the Railroad Ret irement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts, approved on July 31, 1 not only give railroad workers the most comprehensive system of social insurance i n the United States, i n terms of risks covered, but provide the first major, i f par t ia l , extension of the coverage of old-age and survivors insurance since the Social Security Act Amendments of 1939. For the first t ime i n this country, a major group of industr ial workers and their families is covered under a unified Federal program providing protection against the five major hazards of economic insecurity—old age, disability, death, un employment, and sickness.