The Social Security Act helped deal with the problems of the poor mothers, families with dependent children, the disabled, and the needy elderly. During the early 1900s support for these people was only a matter or a concern of local, state, and family departments of the United States.
The establishment of the act gave way for the government to provide the general welfare of its beneficiaries. The Social Security Act was established on August 24, 1935 where concerns of the latter already began to be considered as an official Federal Concern.