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Show Farmers Need Proof When Applying for Social Security Farmers who are giving up the operation of their farms and intend to apply for old-age insurance benefits should bring the necessary proofs to support their claims with them when they visit the Social Security Administration dictrict office. This advice was offered today by Mr. Kesler T. Powell, manager man-ager of the Provo social security secur-ity office. "If you have proof of age and earnings when you come to the office it will speed up the processing of your claim and make a return visit unnecessary," unneces-sary," Mr. Powell pointed out. A farmer when he retires and applies for old-age benefits will need extra copies of his 1955 and 1956 Federal income tax returns, proof of age, his social security tax receipts for 1955 and 1956, and his social security account number card. For a self-employed farmer making a claim for old-age insurance in-surance benefits proof of earnings earn-ings is a "must." He should bring along a cancelled check, money order stub, or some other evidence to show that his income in-come tax returns for 1955 and 1956 were filed with the District Director of Internal Revenue. If his wife has passed her 62nd birthday and is making a claim for old-age benefits at the same time, it is important that she, too, bring along proof of age. A birth certificate, of course, is the best proof of age. However, if you do not have one, and cannot obtain one within a reasonable period of time, don't put off filing your claim for that reason, Mr. Powell Pow-ell says. Usually people have other papers around the house i that will serve as adequate) proof of age. Such documents, in order of acceptability, are' baptismal certificate; census registration; hospital record; foreign for-eign church or government record; re-cord; signed statement by attending at-tending physician or midwife; family Bible; naturalization, immigration, military, or vaccination vac-cination record; insurance policies, poli-cies, or a marriage record. "The older the document, the better the proof," Mr. Powell declares. A representative of the social so-cial security office will be at the Welfare Office, Beaver, on April 4, at 2 p.m. Anyone desiring de-siring information regarding social security may contact him at that time. |
