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MORE THAN THREE million disabled wokers and their families are getting monthly social security payments as the social security disability program begins its 16th year this month, according to Mrs. Hazel F. Crumpton, social security district manager in Winchester.
When social security disability payments were first paid in July 1957, only disabled workers between 50 and 65 were eligible for payments, she said.
“Today, severely disabled workers of any age under 65 and certain members of their families can get disability payments. And starting this month, disabled people who have been entitled to social security payments for 2 years or more can get Medicare protection,” she said.
To be eligible for social security disability payments, a worker must be severely disabled and unable to work for a year or more. Payment begins for the sixth month of disability.
GENERALLY, Mrs. Crumpton added, a worker who becomes disabled in 1973 must have worked in employment covered under social security for at least 5 1/2 years—and five years of work must have been during the 10 years before his disability began.
“Young workers, however, may be eligible for disability payments with as little as 1-1/2 years of covered work, depending on their age and when they became disabled,” Mrs.
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