Today’s worker is constantly faced with the problem “What

Today’s worker is constantly faced with the problem “What will I do if I have td stop work because of illness". Some of the unanswered questions which keep going over and over in his mind are, "How will I pay the rent’ or "How will I meet the mortgage payment", “How will I pay for groceries", "How will I be able to keep Johnny in college", just to mention a few that cause the worker many restless nights. Mrs. Hazel F. Daly, Social ; S e c u r i t y District Manager, has some of the answers to these plaguing questions. To protect workers against the loss of earnings because of disability the social security law was amended in 1954 to include payment of social security benefits to the worker and certain dependents should he have to quit work because of illness. When the law was first passed in 1954, an individual worker was required to have a permanent disability before benefits could be paid. In other words, to qualify for social security disability benefits, an individual had to have a mental or physical impair ment that was expected to continue for a long and indefinite period of time, or to result in death. However, Mrs. Daly stated, that definition of disability has been changed. With the amendments to the social security law in 1965, payment of disability monthly bene tits is no longer limited to a person with a permanent disability. Now, a worker may qualify for disability benefits if he has an impairment that has or is expect ed to last at least 12 months Benefits can still be paid to certain dependents of the disabled worker under the new law, the same as under the old. The change in the law applies to the expected duration of an illness only and does not