Retirement, Survivors, Disability Insurance

Retirement, Survivors, Disability Insurance (RSDI) was part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression.

The insurance took to the form of social security payments for widows with a family to support, the handicapped and others in need of money who were not able to support themselves. It was enacted in 1935.

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