The Social Security Act was created in 1935. The Great Society program was proposed in the 1960s taking on many concepts established in John F. Kennedy's "New Frontier."
The Social Security Act created a Social Security Board (SSB),to oversee the administration of the new program. It was created as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal with the signing of the Social Security Act of 1935 on August 14, 1935.
