Released on March 19, 2001, the 2001 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds reports on the current status of the Social Security and Medicare trust fund. According to this year's report, Medicare's financial condition has improved over the past few years. It will, however, probably face severe financial...

The creation of the Social Security program during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt is widely understood to be one of the most important pieces of social welfare legislation in United States history. Drawing on their vast repositories of oral histories, audio recordings, and primary documents, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has established this Web site that will be of great help...