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8 II 9r-?itcoiiir^g llf000-00 I III "AS been tsTABL,SMU> F0R || 11 Mary S? J< msw SOCIAL SECURITY PilKWSC! Changes in Si Bring New Social Security amendments signed bv the President on September 13, 1960 will bring benefits to an estimated 125,nn?i ^: ? ui ?i Mi. UUU ctuuiliuilctl Ul^dUlUU WUI Kers and to the members of their families throughout the country. The change regarding disability benefits is only one of a number of changes made by the amendments. The new law will bring increased benefits to 400.000 children and. through liberalized work requirements. will make some 250.000 people age 65 or over eligible for benefits. Other significant provisions increase the number of people eligible for benefits and increase benefits in some instances. Returning to disability insurance, a person can now qualify for disability benefits without regard to his age. If he has worked long enough under social security and if 1 1! _ .1 nis aisaoimy is severe enougn to meet the definition in the social security law, he and eligible members of his family may draw the benefits even if he has not reached 50 ?the age requirement in the prior law. Those who have already made application to have their social security records frozen because of their disability do not need to take any action now. The Social Security Administration has their records on file and will write to them telling them what they should do. How ever, those disabled people who have not had a previous contact with a social security office to discuss disability protection should get in touch with our office right awav because benefits cannot be paid until an application for them is made. Another change made by the new amendments affects people entitled to benefits and who are working. Unchanged is the rule that a person can get social security benefits for every month of the year if his earnings for the year do not go over $1200. For amounts over $1200?the following formula applies beginning in 1961: One dollar in benefits is withheld for each $2 of earnings between $1200 and $1500. If a person earns more than $1500, he forfeits a dollar in benefits for each dollar that his earnings go over the $1500 amount. However, in spite of this rule, no one will forfeit benefits for any month that he earns $100 or less in wages. If he is self-employed, he does not forfeit a benefit for any month that he does not engage actively in the affairs ^security i >?/ NUHICt ~~1__ >-00001| >1166 ! | 4 '1 I I *A?0T FOR tOENTinCATtOW " ocial Security ' Benefits nt' Viihiicinr??c An estimated 25,000 people ?many of them aged widows ?will benefit by changes in the law which permit payment of monthly checks to eligible survivors of working people who died between March 31, 1938. and December 31, 1939, with at least a year and a half of work under social security. Before this change, survivors could not receive benefits on the social security account of anyone who died before 1940. Also, a dependent widower can now get benefits even if his wife died before 1950, if the wife met the work requirements under social security. Before this change, dependent widowers could not become eligible for benefits unless the person on whose social security account the benefits were claimed died in or after September 1950. But no one can receive benefits under this provision until he has made a claim for them through the local social security district office. Families drawing social security benefits for two or more children and not now receiving the maximum payable to a family will find an additional amount added to their social security checks for December 1960, because of a change which calls for payment of an amount equal to three-fourths of the base amount to each child. This is changed from the formula which provided for one-half of the base amount to each child with a quarter of the base amount divided among all the children. Families affected by this change need to take no action. The additional amount will show up on the social security check which they receive in January, 1961. The amendments also reduce the amount of work time needed to qualify for benefits. Instead of needing two calendar quarters of work for every four quarters after 1950, the number of work quarters required is now one for three. Unchanged, however, is the provision that no one mav get benefits without at least six quarters of work. Anyone who has failed to qualify for benefits in the past because he did not have enough work under social security should call at the local social security district office to find out if this new provision now makes him eligible. Other changes made by the amendments extend social security to parents working in n traHo nr hiiQinncc riuirnnrt Vw a son or daughter, permit THE CLOTHMAKER nonprofit organizations to provide social security coverage for present employees who want coverage, and for employees hired in the future even if less than two-thirds of the employees desire this coverage, and give clergymen, whose social security participation is optional, an extension to April 15, 1962 to choose to be included under the social security plan. A further change allows benefits to be paid to wives, stepchildren, and adopted cnnaren 01 retired and disabled workers, if the relationship has been in effect for at least one year. In addition, the lumpsum death payment can now be paid directly to the funeral director if no widow or widower of the deceased survives, and person responsible for the payment of burial expenses agrees to this disposition, or if no one assumes responsibility for the burial expenses within 90 days of the date of death. Finally, under two further changes in social security disability insurance, a person drawing disability benefits may have a trial work period of 12 months during which he will continue to receive his monthly checks. The second change affects anyone who again becomes disabled within five years of the time that a previous period of disability ended. For further information about how these amendments affect you, phone, write, or call at your social security district office at 117 South Broad Street, Clinton, S. C., any Tuesday. You should make sure to call if you may be entitled to benefits. Monthly checks cannot be started until an application for them is made. November 18 1918 At eleven o'clock on the morning of November 11. 1918, after an armistice had boon signed, the hostilities of the First World War came to an end. Many of the men and women of Clinton-Lydia remember the great day of rejoicing that followed the announcement that the war was over. Women wept in gratitude, and men became hysterical with joy. Church bells were rung. impromptu paraaes wort* neid, and ticker tape filled the streets of the larger cities. A year later, on the anniversary of the signing of the armistice, President Wilson made this statement: "The war showed us the strength of great nations acting together for high purposes, and the victory of arms foretells the Clinton'* Woman's Club The Clinton Woman's Club sold day afternoon, Oct. 21st. Proceeds v projects. Joe Davenport, Bill Terry ar in to extend a helpinq hand to Mrs. more as the last servings were prepa Test Your Knowledge on These TRICKY Ql Hero are 18 questions which should take a minimum of five minutes to answer. After 1( trying them yourself, try them on a friend: 1. You go to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and set the alarm to get up at 1 nine in the morning. How many hours of sleep would this allow you? 1! 2. Do they have a Fourth of July in England? 3. How many birthdays does 11 the average man have? 4. Why can't a man living in Miami, Florida, be buried west of the Mississippi? 15. One month has 28 days. Of the remaining 11 months, how manv have 30 days? * 11 6. If you had one match and entered a room where 11 there were a lamp, an oil heater, and some kindling wood, which would you 1 light first? 7. How far can a dog run into the woods? 11 8. A farmer had 17 sheep; all but 9 died. How many had he left? n ti ?i? - nuw many animals oi Answers to 1. One hour, because the 1 alarm will ring an hour after you set it. 2. Yes, there's a fourth day 1 in July in every country. 3. One ? the average man, 1 EVERY man. is born only once and so has only one birthday. 4. He is still alive, so he can't be buried anvwhere. 1 5. ALL the other 11 months have 30 days. 6. The match. 7. Halfway. After that, it's j running out of the woods. 8. Nine. Just read the ques- j( tion again. 9. None. It was Noah's Ark. 10. The beggar is a woman. ^ enduring conquests which can ot' maut" in peace wnen i nations act justly and in furtherance of the common interests of peace." OCTOBER, i960 Has Chicken Slew 75 quarts of chicken stew Friirill be applied to various Club id Clarence Brookshire dropped Eva Land and Mrs. W. D. Sizered. JESTIONS eacn species cud Moses take along on the Ark? ). A woman gave a beggar 50 cents. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. Why? 1. Is it legal in South Carolina for a man to marry his widow's sister? 2. How many men on a baseball team, and how many outs in each inning? i. If a doctor gave you three pills and said to take one every nan nour, how long would they last? If you have two U. S. coins totaling 55 cents and one of the coins is not a nickle, what are the two coins? 5. Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have? S. Two men play 5 games of chess, and each wins 5 games. How come? 7. A man said he found a coin marked 46 13. C. Is he lying or telling the truth? 3. There is a house with four southern exposures; there is a bear running toward the house. What color is the bear? OI ifictiArif v^uw Ji IVII3 1. Impossible, because the man would have to be dead. 2. Nine men on a team; six outs in an inning. 2. One hour. You take one; then half an hour later, you take the second; at the end of the hour, you take the third. 4 A nickle and a fifty-cent piece?the fifty-cent piece is the coin that isn't a nickle. y Tu'll nniilfi; tlx* turn 1">H - - rf- 1" w .? "" took. f>. They are not playing each other. 7. Lying. Nobody knew it was B. C. so coins wouldn't be stamped that way. B. White; a polar bear. The house must be at the North Pole to have four southern exposures.