Show Survivors' Survivors Benefits Under U Social Security I When a n worker In commerce or Indus Indus- Industry Industry industry try dies Insured under the Federal old- old age and survivors Insurance program the I qualified members of his family may apply for and receive monthly benefits beginning with the tho month In which he died Beneficiaries may be unmarried dependent children under 18 widows of any age with children under ago 18 18 I widows age 65 or over or dependent I parents aged 65 or over Of Ot course a n widow must be a legal widow under understate state sta 6 laws I IA I A widows widow's benefit is three-fourths three of or her husbands husband's benefit amount For all aU others tho monthly payment is equal to half halt the tho workers worker's primary benefit The total monthly benefits either cither retirement re retirement re- re retirement or survivors benefits that can be paid to a family on one workers worker's account ac- ac account i count while never less than 10 may mayI not be more than twice the primary I benefit or 80 per cent of ot the workers worker's average monthly wage or 85 Whenever an Insured worker dies leaving leav leav- leaving leavIng ing no one immediately eligible for monthly benefits a sum lump-sum benefit benent is I payable This benefit amounts to six I times the primary benefit However I I when it is not paid to a survivor but butI j I In reimbursement for funeral expenses it Is limited to the amount of the fun tun- funeral funeral eral expense I ITo To Illustrate how a family's monthly I survivors' survivors benefits are figured let us say that an Insured worker dies leaving a n ni i widow with two unmarried children un un- under unI under I der age 18 If It his primary benefit was for tor example his family would get the following Widows Benefit Benent One child 1 2000 Second child Yz r 2000 Monthly total for tor family A representative from the Ogden of office of- of office fice flee of the Social Security Administration tion visits Park City and surrounding communities on the first Wednesday of each month Inquiries about claims should be made on this date or at the tho Ogden office This Is the fifth firth of ot a serIes of ot nine articles on the Federal old-age old and sur sur- survivors survivors survivors Insurance i I iI |