---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch7"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 7"
heading: "Social Security"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch7"
sections_count: 642
---

# Chapter 7 — Social Security

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

## Contents

- [Subchapter I — Grants to States for Old-Age Assistance](/usc/42/ch7-schI.md)
- [Subchapter II — Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits](/usc/42/ch7-schII.md)
- [Subchapter III — Grants to States for Unemployment Compensation Administration](/usc/42/ch7-schIII.md)
- [Subchapter IV — Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children and for Child-Welfare Services](/usc/42/ch7-schIV.md)
- [Subchapter V — Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant](/usc/42/ch7-schV.md)
- [Subchapter VI — Coronavirus Relief, Fiscal Recovery, and Critical Capital Projects Funds](/usc/42/ch7-schVI.md)
- [Subchapter VII — Administration](/usc/42/ch7-schVII.md)
- [Subchapter VIII — Special Benefits for Certain World War Ii Veterans](/usc/42/ch7-schVIII.md)
- [Subchapter IX — Employment Security Administrative Financing](/usc/42/ch7-schIX.md)
- [Subchapter X — Grants to States for Aid to Blind](/usc/42/ch7-schX.md)
- [Subchapter XI — General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification](/usc/42/ch7-schXI.md)
- [Subchapter XII — Advances to State Unemployment Funds](/usc/42/ch7-schXII.md)
- [Subchapter XIII — Reconversion Unemployment Benefits for Seamen](/usc/42/ch7-schXIII.md)
- [Subchapter XIV — Grants to States for Aid to Permanently and Totally Disabled](/usc/42/ch7-schXIV.md)
- [Subchapter XV — Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees](/usc/42/ch7-schXV.md)
- [Subchapter XVI — Supplemental Security Income for Aged, Blind, and Disabled](/usc/42/ch7-schXVI.md)
- [Subchapter XVII — Grants for Planning Comprehensive Action to Combat Mental Retardation](/usc/42/ch7-schXVII.md)
- [Subchapter XVIII — Health Insurance for Aged and Disabled](/usc/42/ch7-schXVIII.md)
- [Subchapter XIX — Grants to States for Medical Assistance Programs](/usc/42/ch7-schXIX.md)
- [Subchapter XX — Block Grants and Programs for Social Services and Elder Justice](/usc/42/ch7-schXX.md)
- [Subchapter XXI — State Children’s Health Insurance Program](/usc/42/ch7-schXXI.md)