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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
Sr RrA Stirr P. Herrin* p j Washington—In our recent subcommittee hearings on administration of the disabiliy benefit pro-' vision of the Social Security Act, we were furnished statistics illustrating how big an operation this program has become in a relatively short time.
j The disability “freeze” provisionj where by a person covered by social security does not lose ground with respect to his future old-age benefits while he is unable to work because of a severe and. continuing disability, has been in the law approximately five years.
Actual payment of benefits to 4isabled persons at age 50 has been
50.8%