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apply for their benefits before October 1, hes pointed out, will not be able to receive benefits for all the months back to September 1954, the effective date of the new provision in the law.
Under this provision, it is now possible to pay monthly social security benefits to the qualified survivors of workers who died between June 1940 and September 1950 if the deceased wage earner had credit for as little as a year and a half of work under social security. The families of many of these workers applied for benefits at the time of the family breadwinner’s death, Mr. Parsons said, but were told that they could not receive payments because under the law, as it then stood,* the worker had not earned enough social security credit to provide survivors benefits for his family.
Where a claim for social security benefits is filled within 12 months of the time a beneficiary if first eligible, his payments can be made to him retroactively for the whole period, Mr. Parsons pointed out. But if a claim is delayed for more than 12 months, benefits for some months will be lost. He therefore urged the survivors of workers who died between June 1940 and September 1950 to get in touch with their nearest social security offices before October I, 1955. Qualified claimants who apply before that date can be paid benefits back to September 1954.
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