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About one out of every 7 rj sl^ tftmnr ofil spps HennocktJounty is now receiving a monthly social security check according to figures released by Hazel F. Daly, Winchester, Va., social security district manager. Mrs. Daly’s report listed the number of Rappahannock County benefipiaries as 721 at tfig end of 1963. The dollar berSjfit amounts total $404,460.60 yearly. In releasing the figures, Mrs Daly pointed out that the social security benefits are important to the community as well as to the people who receive them. "It is a fact," she said, "that almost every dollar of social security benefits coming into the County is spent each month in local businesses for food, clothing, shelter, and other essentials; In this way, the benefits have a stabilizing effect on the local economy." Mrs. Daly forecast t^at the number of social security beneficiaries will continue to increase In the future, but at a much slower rate than in the past 10 years. She said that, nationally, the social security benefit rolls Increased from about 5 million people in 1954 to more than 19 million at the end of 1963. This rapid growth in the beneficiary population resulted from major amendments to the Social Security Act from 1950 through 1961. She cited several amendments which extended social security eoverage to self-employed ousiness and professional mei> 'armers and agricultural work
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