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Social Security
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“First checks to include the new 10 percent monthly benefit increase authorized in legislation acted upon this week by Congress will reach 26 million social ;S£etfnty beneficiaries on June 3,” according to Mrs. Hazel F. Crumpton, district manager of the Winchester office.
She reported further, “that the regular June 3 checks covering benefits for the month of May will reflect the new higher monthly amount. Separate checks, scheduled to reach beneficiaries later in June will cover the amount, of the increase for the months of January through April.” Mrs. Crumpton emphasized that social security beneficiaries do not need to get in touch with a social security office to get the checks. The payments will be mailed to beneficiaries automatically. “It will take a little over one month,” she said, “to refigure the benefit amounts for all beneficiaries, including the adjustment to take account of events that have affected their individual benefit payments for a particular month in the retroactive period. Over 2.5 million such adjustments are required in a typical month,” she said, “for such reasons as the death of a beneficiary, the remarriage of a widow, a child’s attainment of age 18, a beneficiary’s earnings, etc.
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