Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day is a holiday that’s observed annually on the 31st of January and encourages people who receive a social security check to be thankful for it. This is also a holiday that celebrates the workers that pay into the Social Security system and keep it solvent.

Although some politicians try to demonize this program as a “welfare program,” the fact of the matter is that it’s a program that people pay into and can depend on when they need it. In fact, over 65 million people depend on Social Security benefits every month and it’s one of the most important sources of retirement and disability income in the United States.

The History Of Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day

During the Great Depression, U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt came up with a plan to provide Social Security to Americans. On June 8th, 1934, he sent a request to Congress to ask them to make a committee for studying the economic problems that Americans face and to provide recommendations.

Congress did so and by August of 1935, Social Security had become a reality. At first, it provided aid to only retired workers, but that was amended in 1939 when dependents became eligible to also receive benefits.

Unfortunately, at this time, we’re unsure of who invented Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day or when it was invented. We’re not entirely sure why it was placed on the 31st of January. We’ll continue to try to answer these questions, but until we do, these facets of this holiday are just going to have to continue to be a mystery.

Important Facts About Social Security

In order to highlight the importance of Social Security and to emphasize why this holiday is important to everyone, we decided to do a little bit of research and dig up some facts about it. Below are the facts that we’ve learned while researching this holiday. Facts that we would like to now share with everyone reading today.

• Social Security also provides life insurance and disability insurance.
• Social Security benefits are guaranteed and keep up with the cost of living.
• It lifts millions of older Americans above the poverty line.

Observing Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day

This day can be observed by people who are currently getting a Social Security check and those people who pay into the Social Security system. That means that over 241 million Americans may want to observe this holiday.

It’s also a good idea for people to spread the news about the importance of Social Security and this holiday by using the hashtag #SocialSecurityCheckDay on social media.