Guide to NARA Collection

Social Security Textual Records in NARA II

Researching Social Security History at the National Archives-
SSA's Filing Codes- GENERAL Category

Sub-Level Headings for 000 General Category
010 LAWS AND LEGAL MATTERS
020 SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD (Powers, functions, etc.)
030 PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
040 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES
050 RESEARCH AND STATISTICS
060 INFORMATIONAL SERVICE
070  
080 SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS
090 LOCAL AFFAIRS

010 Sub-Category Topics
 000.1 Politics (Political parties, campaigns, demonstrations, etc.)
 000.2  
 000.3 Crimes, offenses, and criminals (Counterfeiting, forgery; and fraud) (When possible file under subject and index here.)
 000.4 Charities and gratuities (Solicitations, chest campaigns, etc.)
 000.5 Patents, copyrights, and trade marks
 000.6 Biographies
  000.7  
 000.8 Merchant Seamen
 000.9 New subjects (Cross reference under this heading material which is not clearly classifiable under existing subjects, but which is correlated or similar in nature to existing subjects. The material should be given the number representing the class to which it logically belongs or is related but should be cross referenced here.) 
 010 LAWS AND LEGAL MATTERS 
 010.1 Constitutional law, States rights
 010.2  
010.3 United States law and statutes (Revised statutes and amendments, statutes at large, cods and codifications, penal code, special public
laws, etc.)
010.4 Municipal Ordinances
010.5 Foreign laws
011 SOCIAL SECURITY ACT (Interpretation of definitions; terminology)
011.01 Legislative history and analysis
011.1 Legislation affecting social security of the Nation (Amendment of existing provisions; additional legislation on social security)
011.2 Violations
011.3 Protest, opposition, and criticism
011.4 Resolution and recommendation
011.5 Litigation
012 STATE AND TERRITORIAL LAWS (For legislation on unemployment compensation and public assistance see 510 and 610, respectively.) (If use warrants, the laws may be filed under subjects affected and cross referenced here. For example: Correspondence regarding a California civil service statute as applied to the Unemployment Reserves Commission would be filed under California 531.1 and cross referenced to this point.)
013 TAXATION
013.1 Internal Revenue rulings
013.2 Tax forms
013.3 Collections
013.31 Methods
013.32 Refunds, underpayment, and overpayment
013.33 Delinquencies
013.4 Taxing and reporting systems
014 LEGAL INSTRUMENTS: PERSONS: ACTIONS AND REPRESENTATIVES (Notaries, seals, power of attorney,: subpoenas, witnesses, etc.)
015 COURTS, Correspondence with and about courts
015.1 Federal courts
015.11 Supreme Court of United States
015.12 Circuit Court of Appeal
015.13 District Courts
015.14 Court of Claims
015.2 State courts
015.21 Supreme Courts
015.22 Courts of Appeal
015.23 State Trial Courts
015.24 Municipal Courts; Police Courts
016 LEGAL DECISIONS AND OPINIONS
016.1 Decisions and Opinions of Attorney General
016.2 Decisions and Opinions of Comptroller General
016.3 Decisions of the General Counsel (Exceptions are decisions on State Unemployment Compensation, State Public Assistance, or Old Age Insurance, which are placed under 510.4, 610.4, and 706 respectively.)


020 Sub-Category Topics
020 SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD (Powers, functions, etc.) (For annual report, see 317.1)
021 BOUQUETS (Complimentary letters)
024 INFORMATION RE SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD FUNCTIONS, ETC. FURNISHED TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES (Federal Register; U. S. Government Manual, etc.)
025 ADVISORY COMMITTEES OR COUNCILS
026 INTERDEPARTMENTAL RELATIONS
027 International Relations


030 Sub-Category Topics
030 THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
031 THE PRESIDENT
031.01 Executive Orders and Proclamations
031.1 Secretaries and Assistants to the President
031.2 The President personally
031.3 Presidential committees
032 CONGRESS (Capitol, congressional hearings, joint committees, hearings and reports)
032.01 Library of Congress
032.02 Congressional Record
032.03 Government Printing Office
032.1 House of Representatives (Speaker, office buildings, officers of, committees, hearings, and reports)
032.11 Representatives (a-z)
032.2 Senate (Presiding officer, officers of, office buildings; committees, hearings, and reports)
032.21 The Vice President
032.22 Senators (a- z)


040 Sub-Category Topics
040 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
040.01 Executive Office of the President
040.01-1 Bureau of the Budget
040.01-1.1 Division of Statistical Standards
040.01-2 Liaison Office for Personnel Management
040.01-3 National Resources Planning Board
040.01-4 Office of Government Reports
040.01-5 Office for Emergency Management
040.01-5.1 Defense Communications Board
040.01-5.2 National War Labor Board
040.01-5.3 Office of Civilian Defense
040.01-5.4 Office of Coordinator of Inter Alsrican Affairs
040.01-5.5 Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services
040.01-5.6 Office of Defense Transportation
040.01-5.7 Office of Facts and Figures
040.01-5.8 Office of Lend Lease Administration
040.01-5.9 Office of Price Administration
040.01-5.10 Office of Scientific Research and Development
040.01-5.11 War Manpower Commission.
040.0l-5.12 War Production Board
040.02 Independent Agencies
040.02-1 Board of Economic Warfare
049.02-2 Commission of Fine Arts
049.02-3 Coordinator of Information
049.02-4 Council of National Defense
049.02-5 Federal Communications Commission
040.020-6 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
040.020-7 Federal Loan Agency
040.02-8 Federal Power Commission
040.02-9 Federal Reserve System
040.02-10 Federal Trade Commission
040.02-11 Interstate Commerce Commission
040.02-12 Maritime Labor Board
040.02-13 National Housing Agency
040.02-14 National Labor Relations Board
040.02-15 National Mediation Board
040.02-16 Office of Censorship
040.02-17 Securities and Exchange Commission
040.02-18 Selective Service System
040.02-19 Smithsonian Institution
040.02-20 Tennessee Valley Authority
040.02-21 United States Board of Tax Anneals
040.02-22 United States Employees Compensation Commission
040.02-23 United States Maritime Commission
040.02-24 United States Tariff Commission
040.1 Civil Service Commission
040.1-1 District Offices
040.1-2 Council of Personnel Administration
040.2 General Accounting Office
040.3 National Archives
040.4 Railroad Retirement Board
040.5 Federal Works Agency
040.5-1 Federal Fire Council
040.5-2 Public Buildings Administration
040.5-3 Public Roads Administration
040.5-4 Public Works Administration
040.5-5 Work Projects Administration
040.6 Veterans Administration
040.7 Navy Department
040.7-1 General Administrative Officers
040.7.1.1 Secretary of the Navy
040.7.1.2 Under Secretary, Assistant Secretaries, etc.
040.7.1.3 Judge Advocate General
040.7-2 Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices
040.7-2.1 Bureau of Aeronautics
040.7-2.2 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
040.7-2.3 Bureau of Navigation
040.7-2.4 Bureau of Ordnance
040.7-2.5 Bureau of Ships
040.17 2.6 Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
040.7-2.7 Bureau of Yards and Docks
040.7-2.8 Office of Chief of Naval Operations
040.7-2.8.1 United States Coast Guard
040.7-2.8.2 Intelligence Service
040.7-2.9 United States Marine Corps
040.8 War Department
040.8-1 General Administrative Officers
040.8-1.1 Secretary of War
040.8-1.2 Under Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries, etc.,
040.8-1.3 Chief of Staff
040.8-2 Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices
040.8-2.1 Army Corps Areas
040.8-2.2 Bureau of Public relations
040.8-2.3 National Guard Bureau
040.8-2.4 Office of the Adjutant General
040.8-2.5 Office of the Chief of the Armored Force
040.8-2.6 Office of the Chief of the Army Air Forces
040.8-2.7 Office of the Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service
040.8-2.8 Office of the Chief of Finance
040.8-2.9 Office of the Chief of Ordnance
040.8-2.10 Office of the Surgeon General
040.8-2.11 Panama Canal
040.9 Federal Security Agency
040.9-1 Office of the Administrator
040.9-1.1 Chief Clerk
040.9-1.2 General Counsel
040.9-1.3 American Printing House for the Blind
040.9-1.4 Columbia Institution for the Deaf
040.9-1.5 Freedmen's Hospital
040.9-1.6 Howard university
040.9-1.7 St. Elizabeth's Hospital
040.9-2 Civilian Conservation Corps
040.9-3 Food and Drug Administration
040.9-4 National Youth Administration
040.9-5 Office of Education
040.9-6 Public Heath Service
040.9-6.1 National Institute of Health
040.9-7 Social Security Board
040.9-8 Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
041 DEPARTMENT OF STATE
041.1 Officers (Secretary of State and Assistants)
041.2 Bureaus
042 TREASURY DEPARTMENT
042.1 Officers (Secretary of Treasury and Assistants)
042.2 Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices
042.2-1 Bureau of Accounts
042.2-1.1 Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants
042.2-1.2 Disbursing Officer
042.2-1.3 Division of Deposits
042.2-2 Legal Division
042.2 -3 Office of Chief Clerk and Superintendent
042.2-4 Defense Savings Staff
042.2-5 Comptroller of the Currency
042.2-6 Bureau of Customs
042.2-7 Bureau of Engraving and Printing
042.2-8 Bureau of Internal Revenue
042.2-8.1 Commissioned of Internal Revenue
042.2 -8.2 Social Security Tax Division
042.2-9 Bureau of the Mint
042.2-10 Bureau of Narcotics
042.2-11 Procurement Division
042.2-11.1 Contract and Purchase Branch
042.2-11.2 Stores and Operations Branch
042.2-12 Bureau of the Public Debt
042.2-13 Foreign Funds Control
042.2-14 Office of the Treasurer of the United States
042.2-15 Secret Service Division
043 POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT
043.1 General Administrative Officers
043.1-1 Postmaster General
043.1-2 Special Assistant and Secretary to the Postmaster General
043.1-3 Administrative Assistant, Chief Clerk, and personnel Officers
043.1-4 Disbursing Clerk
043.1-5 Purchasing Agent
043.1-6 Solicitors and Assistants to the Solicitor
043.1-7 Chief inspector, Assistants, and Superintendents
043.2 Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices
043.2-1 Office cf. the first Assistant Postmaster General (Division of Post Office Service, of Postmasters, of Dead Letters, and Dead Parcel Post).
043.2-2 Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General (Divisions of Railway Adjustments, International Postal Service, Railway Nail Service, Air Mail Service, Rural Mails)
043.2-3 Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General (Finance Division, Money Order Division,Classification Division, Stamps Division Registered Mails Division, Postal Savings Division, Cost Ascertainment Division, Parcel Post Division)
043.2-4 Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General (Divisions of Engineering and Research, Post Office Quarters, tfotor vehicle Service, Building Operations and Supplies, Topography and Traffic)
043.2-5 Bureau of Accounts
044 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
044.1 General Administrative Officers
044.1-1 Attorney General
044.1-2 Assistant Attorney General; Administrative Assistants U. S. Attorneys; U. S. Marshals
044.1-3 Solicitor General and Assistants
044.1-4 Chief Clerk, Assistants, and Appointment Clerk
044.1-5 Attorney in Charge of Pardons
044.2 Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices
044.2-1 Federal Bureau of Investigation
044.2-2 Tax Division
044 .2-3 Bureau of Prisons
044.2-4 Bureau of War Risk Litigation
044.2-5 Alien Property Division
044.2-6 Immigration and Naturalization Service
044.2-7 Board of Parole
044.2-8 Claims Division
044.2-9 Division of Supplies and Printing
044.2-10 Library
044.2-11 Division of Customs
045 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
045.1 General Administrative Officers
045.1-1 Secretary of Labor
045.1-2 Assistant to the Secretary
045.1-3 Solicitor and Assistant Solicitor
045.1-4 Chief Clark, Chief Accountant
045.2 Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices
045.2-1 Division of Publications and Supplies
045.2-2 United States Conciliation Service
045.2-3 Division of Labor Standards
045.2-4 Bureau of Labor Statistics
045.2-5 Wage and Hour Division
045.2-6 Children's Bureau
045.2-7 Women's Bureau
045.2-8 Public Contracts Division
046 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
046.1 General Administrative Officers
046.1-1 Secretary of the Interior
046.1-2 Under Secretary; First Assistant Secretary ; Assistant Secretary, etc.
046.1-3 Chief Clerk
046.1-4 Solicitor
046.2 Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices
046.2-1 General Land Office
046.2-2 Office of Indian Affairs
046.2-3 Fish and Wildlife Service
046.2-4 Grazing Service
046.2-5 Geological Survey (A-Z)
046.2-6 Bureau of Reclamation
046.2-7 National. Park Service
046.2-8 Bureau of Mines
046.2-9 Division of Territories and Island Possessions (Territorial Officials--see 092 for Correspondence with territories as independent units)
046.2-10 Bituminous Coal Division
046.2-11 Petroleum Conservation Division
046.2-12 Office of Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense
046.2-13 Division of Power
046.2-14 Bonneville Power Administration
047 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
047.1 General Administrative Officers
047.1-1 Secretary of Agriculture
047.1-2 Assistant Secretaries; Under Secretary
047.2 Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices
047.2-1 Office of Personnel
047.2-2 Office of Finance
047.2-3 Office of the Solicitor
407.2-4 Commodity Credit Corporation
047.2-5 Office of Information
047.2-6 Surplus Marketing Administration
047.2-7 Office of Experiment Stations
047.2-8 Extension Service
047.2-9 Agricultural Adjustment Administration
047.2-10 Bureau of Agricultural economics
047.2-11 Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering
047.2-12 Bureau of Animal Industry
047.2-13 Rural Electrification Administration
047.2-14 Agricultural Marketing Service
047.2-15 Bureau of Dairy Industry
047.2-16 Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
047.2-17 Office of Agricultural Defenses Relations
047.2-18 Forest Service
047.2-19 Commodity Exchange Administration
047.2-20 Bureau of Home Economics
047.2-21 Bureau of Plant Industry
047.2-22 Soil Conservation Service
047.2-23 Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
047.2-24 Farm Credit Administration
047.2-25 Farm Security Administration
048 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
048.1 General Administrative Officers
048.1-1 Secretary of Commerce
048.1-2 Assistant Secretaries
048.1-3 Solicitor and Assistant Solicitor
048.2 Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices
048.2-1 Civil Aeronautics Administration
048.2-2 Bureau of the Census
048.2-3 Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
048.2-4 National Bureau of Standards
048.2-5 Weather Bureau
048.2-6 National Inventor's Council
048.2-7 Coast and Geodetic Survey
048.2-9 Patent Office
048.2-10 Division of Publications
048.2-11 Division of Personnel
048.2-12 Division of Purchases and Sales
048.2-13 Library
049 OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES (File alphabetically with each agency broken down according to organization if warranted)

050 Sub-Category Topics
 050 RESEARCH, STATISTICS, SURVEYS AND STUDIES
 050.01 Studies and surveys
 050.011 Post war planning
 050.02 Statistics
 050.021 Clearance
 050.022 Manual
 050.023 Vital
 050.0231 Birth registrations
 050.0232 Death registration
 050.03 Lists of economists and research agencies
 050.1 Miscellaneous welfare plans (Studies and experience) 
 050.11 Commercial insurance
050.111 Insurance company data
050.112 Private retirement plans (A-Z)
050.113 Group insurance
050.1131 Government employees
050.114 Industrial insurance
050.115 Accident and health insurance.
050.116 Casualty insurance
050.117 Foreign insurance (Countries A-Z)
050.118 Savings banks (A-Z)
050.12 Foreign social insurance (Countries A-Z)
050.121 Health insurance
050.122 Old age insurance
050.123 Unemployment insurance
050.13 Government retirement plans
050.131 Federal
050.1311 Civil service
050.132 State and municipal
050.14 Railroad retirement plan
050.15 Railroad unemployment compensation plan
050.16 Government insurance (National service and war risk)
051 POPULATION
051.01 Aliens
051.02 Armed forces
051.03 Census
051.1 Dependency
051.11 Aged
051.12 Children
051.121 Orphans
051.122 Benefits
051.2 Age, sex, marital status, race
051.21 Age
051.22 Sex
051.23 Marital status
051.24 Race
052 FAMILY (Standards)
052.1 Cost of living
052.2 Education
052.3 Income
053 BUSINESS UNITS (Number of employees; industrial
classification)
055 EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
055.01 Employment
055.411 Hours
055.02 Unemployment
055.1 Labor migration and mobility
055.2 Specific industry studies (A-Z by industry)
055.4 vocational rehabilitation
055.41. Servicemen and ex-servicemen
055.5 Category of workers
055.6 wages
056 SOCIAL INSURANCE
056.01 Unified system
056.02 Adequacy of benefits
056.1 Health insurance
056.101 Federal (Legislation)
056.102 State (Legislation)
056.11 Disability
056.1101 Benefits
056.1102 Certification
056.1103 Costs
05E.1?.04 Unified system
056,111 Permanent disability
056.112 Temporary disability
056.12 Medical care and facilities
056.121 Hospitals
056.1211 Beds
056.1212 Construction
056.1213 Location and number
056.1214 Ownership and income
056.1215 Type
056.122 Hospital care plans (A-Z)
056.123 Medical service plans (A-Z)
056.124 Fees
056.2 Professional and special services
056.21 Christian Science practitioners
056.22 Chiropractors
056.23 Dentists
056.24 Supplies
056.25 Nurses
056.26 Optometrists
056.27 Physicians
056.271 Ophthalmologists
056.272 Osteopaths
056.28 X rays
056.3 Workmen's compensation
057 ACTUARIAL STUDIES
057.1 Annuity Studies
057.11 Voluntary Annuity
057.2 Mortality
057.21 Tables
058 FINANCIAL RESEARCH, SURVEYS, AND STATISTICS
058.01 Administrative expenses
058.02 Accrued liability
058.03 War financing
058.1 Financing social security
058.101 Cost estimates
058.11 Old age and survivors insurance
058.12 Public assistance and relief
058.13 Unemployment compensation
058.14 Fiscal capacity of States
058.15 Grants in aid
058.151 Variable grants
058.152 Intra State equalization
058.2 Debts
058.3 Income (National and per capita)
058.4 Savings
058.5 Tax research
058.51 Income tax
058.52 Payroll taxes

060 Sub-Category Topics
060 INFORMATIONAL SERVICE
060.1 Interviews and visits (Other than the press)
060.2 Reports on public relations
060.3  
060.4 Censorship and approval of information (Leak of information; methods of handling confidential material; permission to publish; terminology)
060.5 Publicity (Cooperative arrangements; foreign languages; education programs)
061 THE PRESS
061.1 Information to the press
061.11 Releases
061.12 Press conferences
061.2 Press digests, clippings, and analyses
062 GROUP CONTACTS
062.1 Radio programs
062.11 Script
062.12 Transcriptions
062.13 Forums
062.2 Speeches and speaker's service (Speech invitations; engagements; preparation)
062.21 Reports
062.3 Visual education
062.31 Movies
062.311 Reports
062.32 Exhibits
062.321 Maps and charts
062.322 Photographs
062.323 Posters
063  
064 PUBLICATIONS
064.1 Board publications (Subdivide by publication)
064.11 Preparation and revision (Assignment, review prior to publication, proofs of)
064.111 Illustrations
064.12 Mailing list
064.13 Distribution
064.14 Inventory
064.2 Outside publications (Digests of; preparation and review of articles for; list alphabetically specific periodicals and publications)


070 Sub-Category Topics
   

080 Sub-Category Topics
 080 SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS (Correspondence and indexes pertaining to groups other than political societies and associations in general; individual societies and associations filed under 095)
081 TRADE AND LABOR UNIONS IN GENERAL
 082 VETERAN ASSOCIATIONS
 083 SECRET AND FRATERNAL ASSOCIATIONS
 084 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND GROUPS
 085 CHARITABLE, CIVIC, AND CHARACTER GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
 086 COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATIONS AND GROUPS
 087 TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
 088 RELIGIOUS GROUPS
 089 MISCELLANEOUS


090 Sub-Category Topics
 090 LOCAL AFFAIRS
 091 COUNTRIES (A Z)
 092 STATES AND TERRITORIES (A Z) (File under this heading, by State, all material regarding State unemployment compensation or public assistance by the subjects which are embodied in the 500 and 600 groups. Index or file here, also, by an alphabetical arrangement, general correspondence to or from State departments, offices, agencies, governors, senators, representatives, or assemblymen.)
 095 PROPER NAME FILE (Alphabetical) (File under this heading all indexes or actual correspondence pertaining to individuals, firms, companies, corporations, associations, societies, newspapers, cities, counties, and townships.)