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Amendments to the Social Security Act. The remainder of the increase was simply due to a greater number of beneficiaries ’’
By the end of May 1969. social security will be paying monthly benefits to more than 25 million people -• 1 out of every 8 Americans. Although retired workers comprise the largest group of beneficiaries, almost one-fourth of all people receiving benefits are under 60 There are currently more than 3.8 million children and .5 million young widowed mothers receiving payments. Vet the public continues to think of social security as a program for old people. In Rappahannock County, 215 people under 60 are receiving benefits. That figure breaks down nto 115 under 18, 11 between 18 - 21, and 89 between 22 59.
Many students would have been unable to continue their educations were it not for the 1965 Amendments to the Social Security Act which extended survivors and dependents insurance benefits to students until their 22nd birthdays. In 1968, that provision resulted in continuing benefits for 470,000 students.
Monthly payments to the family of a worker who dies leaving a widow and two or more children range e from $82.50 to $434.40 a month, depending on the worker’s average earnings under social security Payments to the young family of a worker who dies at an early age could total as much as $85,000 to $100,000.
Mrs Crumpton also pointed out that by the end of 1968, approximately 90 percent of Americans 65 and ovef were either receiving cash benefits or would have been eligible for such benefits if they or their spouses had not been working.
In terms of Medicare, almost all people in the country 65 or over are eligible for hospital insurance benefits. Likewise, 95 percent of all older persons in the country have elected coverage under the voluntary supplementary medical insurance plan which pays physicians’ fees
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