What does OAA stand for?

By the end of the 1930s, however, the personal popularity of the president, the lure of federal dollars, and the pressures of addressing unemployment and poverty had induced all states to adopt unemployment compensation and old age assistance, and most of them to adopt the rest of the state-aid programs in the Social Security Act.

Mary Poole offers public historians, social historians, social scientists, social workers, and students of policymaking a detailed reading of primary sources by those men and women instrumental in shaping and enacting the first four programs of the 1935 Social Security Act--Grants to States for Old Age Assistance (Title I), Federal Old-Age Benefits (Title II), Grants to States for Unemployment Compensation Administration (Title III), and Grants to States for Aid to Dependent Children (Title IV).

Old Age Assistance under the Social Security Act of 1935 enabled people to pay for more services at home.

Lieberman hardly mentions old age assistance, yet it was the most popular of all the programs created by the Social Security and, between 1935 and 1951, the most important as well.

1935 Social Security Act creates Old Age Assistance to bolster incomes of needy elderly but forbids OAA payments to inmates of almshouses.