Show I One Million Payments I M Made By Social Security I Announcement n n is made today by Wm R. R Duggan manager of the Ogden field office that the S Social lal Security Board began payment today of the one mil monthly Insurance benefit in m force torce under the old-age old and survivors I insurance program Initial m man monthly o n t h l 1 Y benefit checks amounting to were presented to Mrs Mary Rex Thompson 33 recently widowed wife of a Cleveland war worker on behalf of ot herself and her two children chil dren Dale Bernice four and Jerald Robert one j I They mark the start stet of a monthly flow of such checks that under normal I circumstances will wUl continue for 17 years until until Jerry Bob is 18 Mrs Thompsons Thompson's Thompson's Thompsons Thompsons Thompson's Thomp Thomp- sons son's payments will wUl be resumed again when she is 65 65 provided she does not remarry Altogether the payments payment on the social security account of her husband husband husband hus hus- band John Robert Thompson may total I The checks were presented by Mrs Ellen S. S Woodward of Washington one of the three members of the Social Security Board in a ceremony In the Thompson home at Russell avenue l In Cleveland 1 I IA A check for 2507 will be sent each month to Mrs Thompson and she also will receive one for 1671 for tor each child I each month Mrs Woodward explained Each childs child's will stop at age 18 When Jerry Bob becomes 18 his mothers mother's benefits will cease until she is 65 I f Mrs Thompson said she did not know I her family had this protection until her law in told her about it after her husbands husband's death I thought until dad told me that social security was just lust for old age These monthly family payments payment will enable me to keep my children with me and give them my personal care she said Without them themI I would have to get a job lob Added to my husbands husband's Insurance however they will wUl enable me to manage nicely This social security insurance is a wonderful thing for tor young mothers mothers and and I am glad to tell teli about the payments payment we are getting so that other mothers mother will know about It It In making the presentation Mrs Woodward explained that Mrs Thomp Thompson n receives her monthly social seer sec security rity ity f checks because she has Children under 18 In her care For young widows this i. i is a cond condition of eligibility but widows over age 65 may receive benefits whether f or not they have young children so long longas J as their husbands were InUred Insured Mrs L Woodward said S The old-age old and survivors insurance f program Mrs Woodward said is really J a Federal family insurance program under under un- un j. j der which monthly benefits benefit now are being paid at a a. rate In excess of ot a a. year J Mrs Woodward gave the following ji breakdown of the million benefits in ln force retired workers receiving a month wives above J 65 of ot retired workers workers' receiving a month widows of or insured workers with children under 18 receiving receiving ing a month children under 18 of ot deceased or retired workers re receiving a month widows 65 or above of at Insured workers receiving a month and aged aged dependent parents of at Insured workers who died leaving no widow or child under tinder 18 38 receiving a J month j. j In addition Mrs Woodward pointed ji out sum lump-sum payments amounting to have been paid in the cases L of ot Insured workers who died u without leaving a a. survivor who was waa w entitled entitled en- en titled Immediately to monthly benefits Benefits Benefit are based on the insured inured j. j workers worker's average monthly wage and the length of time he has been In la covered f employment Jobs employment Jobs In business or Industry Indus Indus- J try Thompson's Thompsons average monthly wage i. i was At times he be made considerably consider consider- ably blY more find end nd at other times he be was ill or made less Every worker in our nation should be able to build this kind of Insurance protect protection on V for his hU M Mrs Woodward said j about 20 million are o din denied nied ed this r rIght because th they v earn carn their i living i in agriculture In domestic service In private hou households holds by working for tor themselves In small businesses or professions or in other employment em em- She explained that the Board In Its it eighth l annual nual H report bad recommended recommended mended to the congress that coverage be extended to all excluded groups ben Mrs fit Thompson med filed her c claims for tor benefits on JUly 5 Ii at the Cleveland Cleveland field ld office of 01 the Security Boora 1300 Chester avenue Mr Duggan Informed The Park Patk Record payment at retirement and sur- sur to benefits Is n now being maude made I t residents of at northern Utah the Insurance checks checka totalling about each re More than 90 ot these be reside m in Summit county county c About other are receiving benefit checks through the Salt Lak Lake City field office of at the Social Security Board y |