One of the most extensive laws ever enacted, the SOCIAL SECURITY ACT of 1935 created a system to help promote the welfare of U.S. citizens. It was part of Roosevelt's second New Deal. Social Security provides benefits, including a pension system for retirement, a system of unemployment compensation, and assistance for the disabled. These benefits are subsidized by income tax with holdings.
The act did require colonial governments to provide and pay for feeding and sheltering any troops stationed in their colony. If enough barracks were not made available, then soldiers could be housed in inns, stables, outbuildings, uninhabited houses, or private homes that sold wine or alcohol. Quartering Act, (1765), in American colonial history, the British parliamentary provision (actually an amendment to the annual Mutiny Act) requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.
