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Soc. Security Notes
Social security payments to a 23-year old youth who has never worked? There are many such cases, says Mrs. Hazel F. Crumpton, social security district manager in Winchester, Va. Gerald Nees, of Terre Haute, Indiana, is a typical example. Paralyzed from a diving accident at the age of 15, he was supported by his parents. Then he learned to draw-using a brush held in his mouth. He was good enough to sell some of his paintings. But he still needed financial assistance from his father.
In 1961, however, his father suffered a disabling heart attack. Mr. Nees was eligible for social security disability payments-and so was Gerald, because his disability had begun before he was 18. „ More than a quarter of a million people receive monthly social security benefits because
88.3%