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Show Manv People Eligible for Social Security There are many people in this area who will receive higher social so-cial security payments as a result re-sult of the social security amendments which President Truman has just signed into law. The first increased checks will be for the month of September, delivered de-livered early in October. Kesler T. Powell, manager of the Provo social security office, emphasized that no one needs to apply for the increased payments. pay-ments. "The Social Security Administration Ad-ministration is already changing the amounts," he pointed out. "We expect to get them changed in time to have them in the mail October 3, the regular delivery date, but if in a few cases we don't meet that schedule we'll send the regular check and make up the difference In a later check." Mr. Powell pointed out that although al-though nearly every family receiving re-ceiving payments would receive an increase, the additional amount would not always be divided among all the members of the family receiving monthly checks in some cases the increase in-crease will go to retired workers. |