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Show AGE INSURANCE APPLICATIONS ' BEING RECEIVED FROM UTAHNS Application for old age insurance under the federal social security program are nqw being received at branch offices of the "federal social security board in Salt Lake City, Ogden and Richfield. f" I First claims under the program I will be paid by the United States J treasury February 1. Checks will H be mailed to recipients. 4 Between 30,000 and 35,000 claims 'jj are expected over the nation for '-j January, first benefit month, ac-1 ac-1 1 cording to reports from Washing-,'3 Washing-,'3 ton, D. C. ,1 Eligible persons In the Salt Lake area should go or write to the A 'social security office at 19 Writ 7 South Temple street, room 853. j' Other Utah offices are In the Or-den Or-den post office and In the Peterson Bank building, Richfield. Persons over 65 years old, who have met employment requirements require-ments and have retired, are eligible eli-gible for Insurance. So are their dependents wives If they are over 65 years old, and children below 16 years old (18 years If attending attend-ing school). The benefits are determined on a basis of the applicant's Income before retiring, but the law pro- ides Hist tiny man nut m leu than f 10 a month. The maximum Is $85 a month. Here, taken from official records, rec-ords, are answers to questions most often asked about old age benefits: has been placed on benefit rolls and will disclose the amount of his monthly payments. Q. - MimI be call aeeaa place for his money f A. No, United States treasury will mall benefit check to his home st the end of each benefit month.' Q. How much will beneficiaries get? A. Monthly benefits are figured according to a formula which takes Into account average wages and the number of years of work in employment covered by the program. ' . What Is this formula? A. A basic amount equal to 40 per cent of the first $50 of the average monthly wage plus 10 per cent of the next $200 of average monthly wage; to this Is added 1 per cent of the basic amount for each year In which the Individual earns at least $200 In covered employment. em-ployment. (A worker with an av-pi av-pi age- mummy mvit ur $jo will get a monthly benefit of $20.60; his wife, If over 65, a supplementary supplemen-tary $10.30, and each dependent child $10.30. A worker with an average monthly wage of $200 will Raff! get $36.05; his 65-yesr-old wife $18.03, and each dependent child $18.03. These figures apply to benefit payments which start February Feb-ruary 1.) Q. What will k the smallest menthly benefit? a A. The law provides that no benefit will be less than $10 a month. Q. What will be the largest menthly baarfK? A. The highest total of monthly benefits which may be paid Is $85. Q. Wbal happens If a wag earner 4 i? A. Monthly benefits will be payable pay-able to survivors of wage earners. Q. How much will survivors get? A. A widow over age 65 will get a monthly benefit equal to three - fourths of her husband's ( I Preapectiv keaefleiary fills at applloati.a after confer-am confer-am at seeeal seearlty office, ' Q. Whea a meataly benefits Win? , A. January. 1940, la the first benefit month. , . Be ebeelis g nt In January? A. No. Benefits are paid at end of month. First payments will be mad February 1. , Q. Wee wUI get benefits? - A. Wage earners who have reached 65 and retire. Q. Any e titer requirements? ' A. Yes, wag earners must have worked In employment covered by the social security act and must have earned at least $50 In each of six quarter-years sine 1936. Q. What Is eevered eraolav- meat? A. Virtually all types of wage-earner wage-earner work except farm labor, domestic service, federal government, govern-ment, state, county and city employment, em-ployment, religious, charitable and casual work (odd jobs). Q. Deea the retired worker's family get extra he Befits? A. Yes, worker's wife If over 65 and each dependent child under 16 tor under 1$ If attending school) 4 If everjruiln toes welt, ketl J et bis first ekeok aawut Fek-ruary Fek-ruary 1. annuity. ' A younger widow who has dependent children receives a similar benefit. In addition, a dependent de-pendent child under 16 (or 18 l( attending school I receives a benefit bene-fit equal to one-halt of father's annuity. If wage earner leaves no widow or children but leaves a parent over 65 wholly dependent upon him, then the parent . receives re-ceives one-half of his annuity. Q. Hew ar benefits financed? A. Insured workers are taxed 1 per cent a month on their wages. Tha employer similarly pays 1 per cent a month. 2 Has appilestian I cheeked , against tha record. f hi m-pleyment, m-pleyment, a-, salary, , la Washington. . gets a separata benefit equal to one-half of the worker annuity. . De benefits cans au tenia U-eaJly? U-eaJly? A. No, application must be made. Where eee the penoa apply ap-ply f A. Social security board branch office Other at 19 West South Tempi street. Salt Lake City; In the Peterson Bank building, Richfield, or In the Ogden post fflc. l What aettan will field efrVe take ; A. It will give Information concerning con-cerning benefits, provide application applica-tion forms and forward applications applica-tions to Washington offios of social so-cial security board for approval. . . What la the next stepf A. Letter from board to appll-cant appll-cant will tell him that his nam |