NOTES FROM YOUR
EXTENSION SERVICE
By Lew Hanks,
District Agent
Many farm operators and agri
cultural workers are still un
certain about how changes made
last year in the social security
law affect them, says Lew Hanks,
Extension Service district agri
cultural agent.
Seif-employed farmers and
many farm employees are cov
ered by social security for the
firat time this year, Hanks re
minds farm families and farm
workers in the Matauuska Val
ley.
“If you have not already done
so,'* says Hanks, “it will be to
your benefit to find out exactly
how the law now affects you and
your family. Social security may
offer you the benefit of a re
tirement income after age 65, or
an income to your widow and
minor children, or dependent
parent in the event of your death.
“If you own a farm and are
self-employed, you must obtain
the proper tax forms from your
district of Internal Revenue, fill
out the necessary information
about your farm operation and
income, and pay the required 3
percent tax to earn credit toward
the benefits provided by the law.
“If you farm another person’s
land under an ordinary crop
sharing arrangement, you are a
self-employed person rather than
an employee. If your net earn
ings from self employment
amount to $400 or more a year,
either from farming or in com
bination with earnings from
some other business covered by
social security, your earnings
can be credited for social secur
ity and are subject to the 3 per
cent tax for this purpose. (The
landowner, under an ordinary
crop-sharing arrangement is con
sidered as receiving rentals from
real estate. His share is thus ex
cluded from social security cred
its or liabilities. But if the two
have a legal partnership and
share in the profits, the income
of both may be creditable to
ward social security).
“A member of a farmer’s fam
ily—even a minor—may qualify
as' a self-employed person under
the law if he, or she, runs a sep
arate enterprise such as poultry
raising, keeps his own accounts
and pays the expenses, and his
net earnings amount to $400 or
more in a calendar year.
“If you are employed as an
agricultural worker, and you
earn $100 or more in cash (not
goods or board) in a calendar
year from any one employer, you
are covered by the law,” says
Hanks. “Your employer is res
ponsible for obtaining and fil
ing the proper forms, and paying
the tax. He should withhold 2
percent of your wages for this
purpose, and send this amount,
together with an equal amount
to be paid by him, to the district
director of Internal Revenue at
the end of each quarter.”
Farm operators and workers
who have any question about
their status under the social se
curity law, as amended, should
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SPECIALIST TO
CONDUCT WORKSHOP
Mary Robinson, home furnish
ing specialist, will be in Palmer
-on Monday, October 17 at 1:30
pjn. to conduct a laundering
workshop. The workshop will be
held in the Extension craft room
at the Extension Service office in
the Legion building. Everyone is
invited to attend.
Even in this modern day of
laundering, Marylou Rideout,
home demonstration agent point
ed out, there still are existing
problems. Miss Robinson will
discuss your problems and will
demonstrate stain removals and
care of new synthetics which
must be known to get value re
ceived.
“Every homemaker at some j
time has had a disappointment
in seeing a finished laundered
garment," she said. “No doubt if
the right laundering practice had
been followed, there would not
have been sad results. So take no
more chances. Get complete as
surance and have a happier laun- I
dry day.”
Miss Robinson will be in Was- I
ilia, conducting the same type j
workshop in the Wasilla School |
Wednesday evening, October 19
at 7:30. On Tuesday, October 18
she will conduct a workshop at
Glenallen.
write to their district director
of Internal Revenue for informa
tion, or get in touch with one of
the 530 district social security of
fices located in cities and towns
throughout the nation, suggests
Hanks.
Ketchikan and j
Nome Join the
Cities League
Ketchikan and Nome have be
come the newest members of the
League of Alaskan Cities, it was
announced this week by League
President Harold Russell Painter,
mayor of Seward.
Ketchikan’s current population
is estimated at 7,500 while
Nome’s is about 1,750. The mem
bership of these towns brings the
total population of cities repre- ,
sented by the League to 67,780—
about four out of every five per
sons residing within Alaskan
municipalities.
The League now has members
in each of Alaska’s four judicial
divisions. In addition to Nome
and Ketchikan ,the membership
includes Palmer, Anchorage, Cor
dova, Fairbanks, Kodiak, Seldo
via, Seward and Valdez.
The League of Alaska Cities is
an association devoted to the im
provement of local government
through the exchange of informa
tion between cities and common
effort for the elimination of mu- '
tual problems.
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