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MORE THAN 3 1/2 million disabled workers and their families are getting monthly payments as the social security disability program begins its 17th year this month, according to Mrs. Hazel F. Crumpton, social security district manager in Winchester.
“Only disabled workers between 50 and 65 were eligible when the first social security disability benefits were paid in July 1957,” Mrs. Crumpton added.
“Today, workers of any age under 65 as well as dependent members of their families can have the protection of disability insurance,” she added. “Since July of last year, Medicare health insurance has been available to disabled people if they’ve been entitled to social security disability payments 24 or more consecutive months.”
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