Show FEWER BENEFITS LOST people are discovering social security although inadvertent loss of benefit remains a major problem the number of persons who deprive themselves of old age and survivors insurance benefits because they delay tiling filing their claims is decreasing steadily that report has been made by the federal security agen cys social security administration in announcing the improvement 0 C director of the administrations bureau of old age and sur livors insurance in baltimore said our continuing efforts to inform workers of their benefit rights have resulted in increased public aware ness that old age and survivors insurance benefits are payable only if they are bl claimed aimed studies of benefit losses made by the bureau reveal that claimants who lose money because of not filing on time offer a variety of reasons for their delay most common reason given is ignorance of benefit rights other reasons include unawareness that an application for benefits must be tiled filed belief that a claimant must show financial need and uncertainty of returning to work said the administration foresees a continued downward trend in benefit losses |