social security... did you know?

I thought SS was passed in 1963

Many changes have been made to the Social Security Act of 1935; these changes are called amendments. Amendments do not violate the Act; they add to it. The wonderful thing about our form of government is that changes can be made to reflect societal changes. The 1963 Amendments brought about Medicare which was the major change to the Act. Another important change was that it made benefits available to husbands and widowers; prior to the amendment benefits were only payable to female dependents. None of the amendments "violated" the 1935 Act.