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The average benefit payable I to a retired worker, about $86 i will be raised to $98, an increase of $12 a month. The average couple’s benefit, now $145, will go up to $165; and the average widow’s benefit will rise $11, from the current average of $75 to $86. The last increase in social security benefits amounted to 7 percent, and was effective January 1965. About 3 out of every 10 bend ficiaries receiving an increas ed check early in March will be someone under 65, many of them the children of working fathers who have died. The value of social security survivors insurance is often overlooked. Social security is more than just a retirement system. But it is also income | protection for the family in case of the breadwinner’s death or disability. With the increased benefit payments provided under the new amendments, to the law, the face value of social security survivors insurance protection is increased to about $940 billion. This isjustabout equivalent to the value of all the private life insurance now in force. Under the amended law, maxi
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