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The SBA guarantees loans to small businesses, aids victims of floods and other natural disasters, promotes the growth of minority-owned firms, and helps secure contracts for small businesses to supply goods and services to the federal government. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is the United States federal agency that administers ...
The President of the United States is the chief executive of the federal government. He is in charge of executing federal laws and approving, or vetoing, new legislation passed by Congress. The President resides in the Executive Residence (EXR) maintained by the Office of Administration (OA).
The first Social Security office opened in Austin, Texas, on October 14, 1936. [11] Social Security taxes were first collected in January 1937, along with the first one-time, lump-sum payments. [9] The first person to receive monthly retirement benefits was Ida May Fuller of Brattleboro, Vermont. Her first check, dated January 31, 1940, was in ...
Profiles of Existing Government Corporations—A Study Prepared by the U.S. General Accounting Office for the Committee on Government Operations (PDF), Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988, p. 301, GAO/AFMD-89-43FS Document: H402-4. Alternate location:
This category contains Independent agencies of the United States government, those Executive Branch agencies that exist outside of the Executive Departments Wikimedia Commons has media related to Independent agencies of the United States government .
Section 201 of the Social Security Act requires that the money in the trust funds be invested in interest-bearing debt securities issued and guaranteed by the federal government known as U.S ...
Critics of Social Security have said that the politicians who created Social Security exempted themselves from having to pay the Social Security tax. [176] When the federal government created Social Security, all federal employees, including the president and members of Congress, were exempt from having to pay the Social Security tax, and they ...
The United States federal government chartered and owned corporations operate to provide public services. Unlike government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or independent commissions, such as the Federal Communications Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and others, they have a separate legal personality from the federal government.