BACKGROUND:

Between 1914 – 1934, states began passing Old Age Assistance laws to keep people out of over-crowded Poor Farms. In 1935, during the Great Depression, the Social Security Act, Title 1, Old Age Assistance (OAA) gave cash payments to poor elderly people, regardless of their work record. Old Age Assistance later became Social Security.

Iowa’s Old Age Assistance Law:
In 1934, the Iowa Legislature passed the Old Age Assistance Law under the Acts and Joint Resolutions passed at an Extraordinary Session of the State of Iowa, Chapter 19, (Senate File 42): An act to provide for the protection, welfare, and assistance of aged persons in need and resident in the state of Iowa, providing the method therefor, making an appropriation therefor, levying a tax, and prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.

 
OLD AGE PENSION TAX LISTS for Warren County:

Belmont Township 1935 & 1936
                Milo 1935 & 1936

Greenfield Township 1935 & 1936
                Spring Hill 1935 & 1936

Jackson Township 1935 & 1936
                Saint Marys 1935 & 1936

Jefferson Township 1935 & 1936
                Bevington 1935 & 1936
                Martinsdale 1935 & 1936

Liberty Township 1935 & 1936

Lincoln Township 1935 & 1936
                Ackworth 1935 & 1936
               
Linn Township 1935 & 1936
                Cumming 1935 & 1936
                Norwalk 1935 & 1936

Otter Township 1935 & 1936

Palmyra Township 1935 & 1936

Richland Township 1935 & 1936
                Hartford 1935 & 1936

Squaw Township 1935 & 1936

Union Township 1935 & 1936
                Sandyville 1935 & 1936

Virginia Township 1935 & 1936
                New Virginia 1935 & 1936

Washington Township
                Indianola 1935 & 1936

White Breast Township 1935 & 1936
                Lacona 1935 & 1936

White Oak Township 1935 & 1936