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Office Building; it is now located at 825 S. Washington Street.
Miss Schaffner said that the Alexandria District Office is but one of 580 throughout the country which altogether process more than cue million benefit claims each year. And today more than 13,750 O(M) beneficiaries receive a social security check each month.
Looking !’.i.k over the first 25 years of the program, social security has paid out in excess of $50 billion in benefits since January 1, 1940. Actually, the first social security deductions from payrolls began in January 1937, but it was three years after this before monthly benefits began.
Miss Schaffner said that today 300 workers are receiving monthly letirement checks from social security in Rappahannock County. Nationally, over 7J4 million Americans are receiving retirement checks. And in more than two million of these cases, the wife of the retired worker is also receiving an additional check. »
The additional amount she recedes will be one-half of the benefit par able to her husband if she is tn wli -n application is made. She will receive slightly less than onehalf if application is made between the ages of 92 and 65. In Rappa-, hannock County some l(K) wives are receiving this type of benefit.
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