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Show RECORD SS BENEFITS PAID TO COUNTY PEOPLE A record of $32,000 in monthly Social Security bene- I fits were paid to 414 Garfield I County residents during December 1968, according to Don Donaldson, Provo District Manager of the Social Security Ad ministration. Throughout the nation, benefits payable at the end of 1968 amounted to $2.1 billion per month. By the end of May 1960. social security will be paying monthly benefits to more than 25 million people -1 out of every 8 Americans. Although retired workers comprise the largest group of beneficiaries, about one-fourth of all people receiving bene fits are under age 60. There are more than 3.8 million children and one-half widowed mothers receiving payments. Monthly payments to a widow with two or more children range from f 82.50 to $434.40. Payments to the family of a worker who dies at an early age could total as much as $100,000. |