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Show Social Security Change Favors Wage Earner I "A person receiving social se. curity benefits will be able to earn up to $1200 during 1955 without having any of his social security benefit checks suspended," suspend-ed," Charles W. Feldhauser, representative rep-resentative of the Richfield, Utah, I social security office, said today. In announcing this change in the Social Security Act, Mr. Feldhauser Feld-hauser pointed out that this liberalization lib-eralization of the retirement test affects both the retired wage earner and the person who was self-employed, but that the biggest big-gest change will be in the way it works for the wage earner. "In the past, and up until the end of 1954," Mr. Feldhauser said, "the retirement test for a wage earner was applied on a monthly basis. If a retired worker earned over $75 in any month in a job covered by the Social Security Act, benefit check for that month had to be suspended. For example, exam-ple, if he earned $150 a month for six months, he could not re-cieve re-cieve his benefit checks for those six months. Starting this year he can earn up to $1200 during the year, whether he earns it in one month or 12, and still be eligible to receive all of his benefit checks. However, this new limit applied to all earnings from work, whether the work is covered cov-ered by social security or not. In the past, only wages in a job covered by social security were considered in applying the retirement retire-ment test." "This means," Mr. Feldhouser said, "that some beneficiaries who had been earning over the limit in work not covered by social se-curinty se-curinty have been able to receive re-ceive benefits. Under the new law, some of their checks will have to be suspended if they earn over $1200 during the year ' A representative of the social security office will be in Cedar City on July 19, at the Utah State Employment Serivce from 10 a. m. to 12 noon, and from 1 to 3 p. m. |