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Show Totally Disabled Workers Should "Freeze" Benefits If you have been totally disabled dis-abled for more than six months or become totally disabled in the future, and have engaged in covered cov-ered work for a substantial period per-iod of time, you should apply for a "freeze" to protect your benefit right. This part of the law protects your insurance rights while you are totally disabled. It does not provide cash disability payments. Your earnings record may be "frozen" if: (1) You have disability which has lasted more than six months, is expected to continue con-tinue indefinitely, and keeps you from doing any substantially substan-tially gainful activity. (2) You worked in a job covered cov-ered by the social security law for 5 of the last 10 years before you were disabled, dis-abled, of which y2 were during the last 3 years before be-fore you were disabled. No application for disability determination de-termination can be accepted before be-fore Jan. 1, 1955. An application made by a disabled person before July 1, 1957 can establish a period per-iod of disability as far back as the total disability actually began (but not earlier than October, 1941), provided the disability still ex- ists. After June 30, 1957, the application ap-plication can go back for only one year. If you are already receiving old-age payments, but you were totally disabled for an extended period before reaching 65, and are still disabled, your benefit may be refigured to see whether the t new disability provisions would increase in-crease your benefit amount. No benefits can be increased under these provisions before July 1955. Those who have questions on this and other social security matters mat-ters should see Mr. Grant S. Williams, Wil-liams, field representative of the Salt Lake District Office of the Social Security Administration, who will be in Room 3, new county coun-ty courthouse, Duchesne, at 2:00 p.m., Feb. 15, 1955, and also at the City Hall, Roosevelt, at 4:00 p.m. on Feb. 15. |