Oh yeah! Much worse than Herbert Hoover who intended to cut social security during the great depression.
Sorry but social security did not start until 1935 about 3 years after Hoover was president.
Payroll taxes were first collected in 1937, also the year in which the first benefits were paid, namely the lump-sum death benefit paid to 53,236 beneficiaries.
The first monthly payment was issued on 31 January 1940