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Soc. Security Notes
As a new service for the blind, the Social Security Administration will now accept letters written in' Braille and will send replies in Braille when so requested.
Social Security Officials feel the new service will help blind persons to better understand, and exercise their rights under the law.
The more than 30,000 blind recipients of social security disability benefits, and the even larger number of blind on the social security retirement rolls, may now correspond with social security without asking for help from sighted friends or relatives. Blind people who are not beneficiaries, but who have questions about social security, may also inquire in Braille and can keep the Braille reply for reference.
Braille letters received at Social Security Headquarters in Baltimore will be transcribed into typewritten form by Martha Seabrooks, a blind typist who has worked for the agency since 1965. The reply is dictated to Miss Seabrooks who transcribes it on a Braille electric typewriter.
This typewriter, which looks and works like a standard typewriter, can produce Braille symbols as rapidly as printed characters can be typed. The Social Security Administration was the first Federal executive agency to purchase such a typewriter.
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