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Social Secority News
About 100 people in Rappahannock County will receive higher social securty payments as a result of the amendments which President Truman signed into law last Friday. The first increased checks will be for the month of September, delivered early in October.
Miss Henrietta Mode, field representative of the Alexandria social security office, emphasized that no one needs to apply for the increased payments. “The Social Security Administration is already changing the amounts,” she pointed out. “We expect to get them changed in time to have in the mail October 3, the regular delivery date, but if in a few cases we don’t meet that schedule we’ll send the regular check and make up the difference in a later check.”
Miss Mode pointed out that although nearly every family receiving payments would receive an increase, the additional amount would not always be divided among all the members of the family receiving monthly, checks. In some cases he entire increase will go to the retired worker.
Under terms of the law, most families will get an increase of about $5 some will get less, some will, get more. A few benefits now being paid and most of those payable in the future, will be based on earnings after 1950 instead of after 1936. The amended law provides a new formula for determining the amount of payments in these cases. Under it, a retired worker’s monthly benefit would be 55% of the first $100 of
two 'Virginia Symphony Orchestra concerts will occupy the music bill-of-fare for August 24. The final program of the current season of open air concerts will spotlight the State Symphony, under the baton of' William Haaker, on August 31.
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