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Show Disability Protection Available for Farmers Beginning in October, this year, farmers will have social security disability protection for the first time. That date can be an import ant one for any farmer who becomes be-comes severely disabled in October Octo-ber or later months. Although many severely disabled people in the Beaver area now are receiving disability insurance benefits ben-efits under social security, farmers have not been able to qualify up until this time, according to Kes-ler Kes-ler T. Powell, manager of the Pro-vo Pro-vo social security office. A disabled person has to have social security credit for five years in the 10 years immediately before he became disabled. Because farmers farm-ers were not covered under the law until January, 1955, they could not meet this test. By now, howefir, most farmers will have earned five years or 20 quarters of coverage under social security, beginning with the month of October. This does not mean that farmers can be paid disability benefits for the month of October, because the law still requires that a person be disabled for six months or more before payments can be made. But it does mean that the farmer who becomes disabled in October or later can meet the work requirements require-ments of the law and become elig- ible for benefits after six months. I For further information, interested inter-ested persons should contact a representative of the Social Secur- ! ity Administration in Beaver at the postoffice on Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. |