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More Local People
Getting Pensions
According to a recent government report, the number of Rappahannock County residents who are receiving retirement checks each month, via Social Security, is at an all-time high.
And the amounts they are getting are larger, due to increases voted by Congress last December.
A total of 882 former workers and their families are now receiving such returns. They are benefiting from money that was deducted from their pay envelopes over the years and put into the Social Security trust funds for their future needs.
Most of these recipients are retired workers. The remainder are disabled workers, wives, widows, children and other dependents of these contributors.
The rapidity with which the system is expanding in the county is brought out in the current
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