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Pension Payments on
Rise in County
An Increasing number of men women and children in Rappahannock County are reaping the benefits of money that was deducted from payrolls during the past 30 years and set aside to provide for their future needs. Currently, as a result, no less than 872 local residents are receiving Federal pension checks each month, as compared with 694 recipients four years ago. Some of them are retired workers, some are disabled persons and some are the dependents—wives, children and parents— of former workers. The rise in the number of beneficiaries has been due, in the main, to the periodic expansion of the social security program. Each change has made it possible for more and more people to be covered.
The extent of this expansion is detailed in the annual reports of the Social Security Administration, which contain facts and figures for every section of the county. They show, for Rappahannock County, in addition to the increase in number of beneficiaries, an increase in the size of the checks going tc them. As of the beginning of this year, total payments in the local area came to $547,000 a year, as against the total four years ago of $380,000. ; Just how much any one indi ;vidual or his dependents have |been eligible to receive has J depended upon how much he paid into the social security trust funds during his active working years. And that, in turn, depended upon his earnings.
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