Retirement, Survivors, Disability Insurance
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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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