Pensioners Will Get Bigger Checks
Under Amended Social Security Act
I here will be no delay in get
ting out the increased insurance
benefit payments provided by the
amended Social Security Act,”
declares James G. Browne, man
ager of the Juneau field office of
the Social Security Administra
tion.
Brown returned from a confer
ence in Sacramento and San
Francisco, held in connection with
the amended act .signed into law
by President Truman last week.
“At the conference, I learned
that the area offices have been
working overtime to compute the,
increased amounts of payment j
end are ready now to get out the!
higher benefit checks,” said Mr. I
Browne.
Under a provision of the new j
law, increased payments will go
to everyone now receiving old
age or survivors insurance pay
ments. This was effective’Septem
ber first.
“Cards notifying present bene
ficiaries of this important provi
sion of the new law are now in j
the mails,” declared Mr. Browne, j
“The increases will show on the j
September checks which will
reach them early in October,” he
added.
Payments under the amended
* law will range from a minimum
of $20 for a retired insured work
er to $150 ‘maximum for family
benefits.
Mr. Browne requests benefici
aries in the Territory wait until
they receive their September
checks to find out the exact
amount of their individual in
creased benefit payments.
Under the new law, Mr. Browne
says, people of age 65 or over will
•*e eligible for insurance benefits
beginning in September if they
have been paid wages of $50 or
more in six or more different cal
endar quarters for work covered
by social security. Roughly, this
is a year and a half.
He estimates that 300 people in
the Territory will be entitled to
immediate payments under this
^revision. Mmv ft thes^ neoole
had made application before but
could not qualify for benents un
der the old law. The Juneau field
i n* the Social Security Ad
ministration is making every ef
. .. iv . in lOucii vvith muse of
"■horn it has record but a«ks the
cooperation of everyone who may
.viiv, .v ui sviCn a person. '*ieil him,
or tell us,” says Mr. Browne.
“wave h'm content pnr of#’ce
file a new application for old
age and survivors insurance bene
fit payments.”
TTie other provisions of the new
law, extending social security
coverage to groups of workers and
self-employed people heretofore
excluded, will go into effect on
January 1.
LEAK DETECTOR
USED TO CHECK
WATER SUPPLY
James Wilson, general manager
of the Co-Op, stated today tnat
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Cash and Carry
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although there have been no
I water shut offs this last week,
Palmer still has water troubles
’’here is enough watef entering
(he pipes to supply a town of four
hbusand people, but somewhere
between the source and Palmer
this trickles to an amount that
can scarcely keep five hundred
people clean and healthy.
With the importation of a leak
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