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Show SOCIAL SECURITY DATA AVAILABLE ATJJBRARYj A copy of the Social Security Act and several explanatory booklets for information of the public have been placed on the reference shelves of the Bingham Bing-ham library. Included is a summary sum-mary of the new recommendations recommenda-tions by the Social Security board for improvement and lib-1 eralization of the law. Miss Zora Maeser, a represen- j tative of the Social Security board, Salt Lake City, spent April 24 in Bingham handling business for the old-age and survivors in-! surance program. She will return here again in May and will send I advance notice to the public j through the Bingham Bulletin. Miss Maeser explained that the j informative material deposited at the library will be helpful to workers, employers, and high school civics students or others who may be interested in the Federal family insurance program pro-gram "Recently the National Grange, the National Farmers Union, and j the American Farb Bureau Federation Fed-eration held national conventions and passed resolutions asking for extension of coverage to agriculture", agri-culture", said Miss Maeser. "The Social Security board similarly recommends federal insurance protection for farmers and other : self-employed persons, hired i hands, domestic workers, em- j ployees of schools, hospital, and j other non-profit organizations, federal, state, city and county 1 employees, and all other groups j now denied protection under the act. "Other recommendations in- j elude protection of the social security se-curity insurance status of members mem-bers of the armed forces, increased in-creased monthly benefits, and reduction in the qualifying age for women from 65 to 60. The j board likewise urges congress to j take steps to provide insurance I benefits for workers retired for! permanent and total disability I and their dependents. Also re-1 i commended is liberalization of the "work clause" which requir-1 I es deduction of benefits for any month in which the beneficiary j earns $15 or more in covered j employment. "At present the Bureau of Old- j Age and Survivors insurance is paying more than 1.120,000 persons per-sons regular monthly benefits, j Of this number. 60 per cent are' women and children." |