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Show 149,831 Apply for Old-Age Insurance In Utah With 149,831 applications for Federal Fed-eral Old-Age Insurance account nuir.bers on file frcm the State of Utah as of July 31, the Salt Lake Ci y Field Office cf the Social Security Se-curity Board stated today that pay-aient pay-aient had been certified during 25 working days of last month of 42 Federal Old-Age Insurance claims amcuning to $2,333.56. In order to pass the 40,000,000 naticnal application mark. the Beard received a total of 532,289 new requests for account card numbers during July, local officials were informed. The -July 1938 national nat-ional account card total is art increase in-crease of 8,236,378 applications over the 31,861,068 total as of July 31, 1937. More than half of the claims certified nationally in July 8,893 weie filed by the heirs of representatives represen-tatives cf the estates of iwage earners earn-ers who have died, according to William B. Haysvard, manager cf the Salt Lake City Field Office of the Board. The remainder of the claims carr.le from wage earners who had reached the age of 65. Cash payments in Utah during July averaged $55.56, in contrast to the national average of $52.41, Mr. Hay,ward said. A total of 660 such claims, with a value of $23,972, have been certified in Utah since the Fede al Old-Age Insurance program became effective January 1, 1937. |