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A record $55,224 was paid out in social security cash benefits to 882 residents of Rappahannock County for February, according to Mrs. Hazel F. Daly, Winchester Social Security District Manager, an increase of $9,596 over the amount paid out for December 1966.
“February 1968 was the first month in which increased benefit rates provided by the 1967 Amendments to the Social Security Act were payable,” Mrs. Daly noted.
Nationally, the amount of monthly benefits exceeds $2 billion, an increase of more than $360 million above the December 1966 figure. More than 24 million men, women, and children, or nearly 1 out of every 8 Americans, are now receiving some type of monthly benefit.
About 18.4 million of those receiving benefits at the end of February were 62 or older. An additional 2.2 million were disabled workers under 62 and their young dependents. About 3.4 million social security beneficiaries were young widowed mothers and their children, the district manager said.
In the past 6 years alone, benefit payments to this “younger group” have amounted to 1 V< times as much as the amount paid out in this category during the preceding 21 years.
Many younger people also receive benefits due to disability. More than $2.2 million is being paid each month to disabled workers and their dependents — — a rate that is 10 percent higher than that of December 1966.
“Most of the changes in the 1967 social security amendments provided more protection foi younger people,” Mrs. Dal> noted. For instance, some 175,000 children are now eligible for benefits based upon the eamings of a mother who hai died or is entitled to disability oi retirement benefits. Previously i women needed to have worker , for at least one and a half of the I last three years. However, thai ■ requirement has been removed i Payments can now be made tc I the children of a woman workei who has died, become disabled, or retired if she hasrenough work ; credits - earned at any time — i to be “fully insured.” I Another change made 100,000 i younger persons - disabled ' workers and their dependents - ' eligible for benefits. The amount * of social security work credits i require for the payment of benefits to workers who become 1 totally disabled before they reach ! 31 years of age has been reduced substantially - for those below 24 years of age, to as little as a year and a half of coverage.
Some 65,000 widows, unable to work because of severe disability, were able to get monthly benefits as early as age 50. Dependent disabled widowers also became eligible for payments, and in some cases, so did divorced wives of deceased workers.
Joint Baptist Sunday School Picnic
The Flint Hill Methodist and Baptist Churches will hold a joint Sunday School Picnic Sunday, July 21 at the Methodist Youth Camp at Boston. Cars will leave the Methodist Church in Flint Hill at 10:30 a.m. It is hoped there will be a good attendance.
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