Show monthly social security payments reach high figure in this state monthly federal social payments in utah now total more than twenty nine thousand dollars each month it was ed recently by harry E johnson manager of the social security boards richfield office nationally tile the monthly dign figure re exceeds nine million dollars sue such ll 11 payments under the old age and sur alvors provisions of the social socia I 1 security act have been made tor for moie than two years these monthly insurance benefits under the federal old age and part of the social security program are made to the surviving widows of workers wilt liae hae died to their minor children and in some cases to dependent parents monthly retirement insurance payments are made to qualified industrial and poll commercial workers who retiro after age 65 to thet the wives ives at aab 65 and to their children under 18 years yeara of age when the quail fled fied worker dies and leaves no dependents a lump sum payment J as s made this is but a concrete demonstration of the increasingly important part that the social security program is playing la in the lives ill es of the people mi air johnson declared declai ed each da day claims arb being filed front from all parts of the state ayery ever one tells its own stor story of families held together all social security payments are aie confidential as to name and amount of individual payments since they the are aie made on the basis of if the insurance account that the and his employer emp loei have built up with uncle sam the importance of employees protecting their social security cuilty Se insurance rights with the govern ment was vas stressed by the manager of the richfield Illch field office of th social security board he said bald that every should make sure that lie he gives his social security account card number to each new employer it la is hiso also vital that marriage certificates are careful carefully kept and that a births birth certificate Is issued and recorded at the time of each childs birth tills this is important since these proofs are necessary when claims for or either retirement or sur bur v ivors livors insurance are filed more than wor workers kera are now protected bythe by the old age and survivors sun ivors insurance provisions of the social security act in utah mr johnson announced |