Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1947 — Page 21
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Social Security Field Officers Help You Avoid Passing Up Benefits Well Earned
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By §. BURTON HEATH,
HEATH, Staft Writer NEW YORK, Jute 0--You'doas hav to lop working at 88 fo oash in on your social security benefits. Job subject to the old-age tax and) walt for your benefits until you decide to to a job not covered by the tax as soon as you're 65 and draw your
You can continue to work in a
benefits immediately. Joe Kearney was three months past 67 when New York City began operating its subways as a unified He stayed on in his $1200
except that now his checks come from the city instead of from a private corporation. And-—though he never noticed it—the 1 per cent so-
ducted. If Joe had gone immediately to the nearest social security fleld office, he could have begun drawing $24.49 » month old age insurance, while still working for the subway at full pay. As prices rose during the war,
No Deductions From Pay, Then congress changed the law, The social security board was authorised to recompute Joe's benefits, and begin paying him the higher rate. But only as of January, 1047. So he lost another $152.40 that way. Failure to know his rights—or to ask the SSB when he became 65, or
retire. Or, you can shift|
that almost 26 per cent raise would have been very welcome, But Joe didn't know, though the S8B tried hard to inform him and his fellows. So he never flled until he quit work in January, 1945. For} 54 months he lost $24.40 a month a total of $132246. It's gone forever, Nor is that all that he lost. Be. cause he was not insured while he worked for the city, his benefit rate went down from the $24.49 it would have been to $18.14-a month. So when he did get benefits, they were $6.35 a month less than they should have been.
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cost Joe a total of $1474.86, not in charity, but in insurance that he had bought under the social security act. “That is a good illustration of the reason we almost beg every insured worker to go to one of our fleld offices the minute he becomes 65,” says Peter Kasius, director of the second and ‘third Social Se-
when he changed status after 65— How to Know If You Can
But suppose you would like to| when you become 65 you are en-
get an idea for yourself whether
security, you are not cov-
i are covered for life, and can a the “one-half” formula. (A Sheer quarter is January March, April through June, July through September, or October
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through December.) THREE: If you are a wife, and oe O} drawing benef, File Your Clai
when: you leave covered employment, it will compute the rate again. “Also, it will figure the benefit rate as of every March 31 between your 65th birthday and your retirement. You will get the highest
benefit rate thus computed.
If your salary increases after 65
There is only one way you might lose by continuing to work after filing a claim at 65. That would be
.{ band receives. (A wife, for this pur-
When You Become 65
. [general on Feb. 1, 1047 but he died
curity districts. Collect
titled to half as much as your hus-
pose, must. have borne a child to the wage-earner or have been married to him at least three years before the month in which he applied for benefits.) FOUR: If you are widowed and your husband was insured when he died, you will be entitled to benefits when you become 65. But if you have a child you are supporting, regardless of your age, you get benefits for yourself and the child until it becomes 18 or is married. Then the benefits suspend until you become 65. FIVE: If a woman has earned benefits of her own they belong to her, when she “retires” after 65, whether or not she needs them. But if her benefits come from her late husband's insurance, she will lose them if she remarries. SIX: You can work for pay and still draw benefits legally, by working for yourself or for an employe not subject to the old age tax.
if you had been married less than
not collect for your wife when she became 65.
Posthumous Promotion WASHINGTON, June 20. (U. P.). —The senate armed services committee yesterday voted to promote Lt. Gen. Roy 8. Geiger of the marine corps posthumously to be a full general. Gen. Geiger would have been retired with the rank of full
Jan. 23, 1947.
Russians Take Walk
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., June 20 (U. P.) —Russia’s delegation to the United Nations military staff committee walked out of a secret session today after protesting that the committee, which is planning the international police force, was following illegal procedure.
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State Announces 3 New Detours
The state highway department today announced three new detours | —road 3 north of Spiceland, road 13 for paving a birdge approach south of Wabash and road 66 southeast of Tell City for resurfacing. Detours on U. 8. 35 and on state roads 64 and 552 have been lifted. The current list of roads closed for construction follows:
IND. 1—Closed south of hntland de- | sui! miles over 36, 27 and 33. (Bridge
Closed to traffic 3 tons of Pennville; 18 miles over 23,
south | 303 and 18, IND. 1—North of Butler; 6% miles over county gravel. (Replacing concrete culv
3—-North of Spiceland; 7% mil over county oil mat and 103. (Cohstruee
U. 8. 12 and 20-—-Bridge out in East Chicago; Pid 9 roulds on over outs 313 and Al. "Alternate er Road 6, 166th 5. 152 and 20 12—PFrom East Chicago to LakeWy ‘county line; 13 miles over Roads 30 sn and county line road. (Bituminous resu y IND. 13—Closed at the Mississinews river bridge south o Wit detour miles over Roads 15. “Paving
bridge & spproach.) North of Wabash, 13 miles over 15 and 1s. (Paving bridge a proach south of Urbana
8) IND. 13—Closed north of Sidney, 8 miles over county ofl mat and concrete. to traffic over 3 tons at the south e of Pennville; detour 23
on Rd Toads to 24. (Bridge construc
IND. 26—1 nile east of Tippecanoe. Warren county line; 3 miles gravel, (Bridge Boor out at “Littie Pine cree! U. 8. 31-From 6 to Sout Bend, 290 miles over 6 and 23. (Resurfacing started
April 1.) IND. 32-From Yountsville to Orawfordsville, 8 miles over county gravel and 34. (Bridge construction U. 8. osed east of 67, 9 miles over 67, 38 and hf county oil m IND. From Road | 3 ho Henryville; 18 miles over op i 403 and 31. (New con-
struction.) IND. m Road M to North Judson; 24 i over Roads 14, 43 and 10.
(Construction nm) North of ‘La Porte, 10 miles over 35, 3. 2312 and 18. fThia ‘detour exw Buffalo,
tends 10 N¢ Livert to Ohio ge of 2s Cand 1. frais hio over Ohio 177;
IND. 47—From Snorla 3, 8 miles over 38 and 31. te P.% ruc
HOD. 55—From Y mile north of Pine Village Jotth 19 miles over 26, county,
road and 4 IND. Se From Tell City to Cannelton, 6% miles over 37 and 237. (Resurfacing; open about June Rn) 69—South of Mt. Vernon, 3 miles over 763 and county rare, (Bridge out.) 75-—Just north of New Winchester, 4% miles over county aver, IND. 109—-From Road 38 to Emporia, § miles over 36, 38 and county line road. IND. 100—From Wilkinson to War ton 2% miles over Ind. 234 and coun y ace and shoulder construc-
IND. 124-Closed west of Ind. 13, detour Th miles to Peru over 13 and 34. (Grade and surface construction.) IND. 120-From 62 to Pleasant; 8 miles
over county gravel. (Resurfacing .) Hammond, 1} miles over 169th st, Roads 9 13 and (Bitumi-
Bn est of North Manch 9 n - ter, 2 iniles over 13 a 4 IND. East
A of a ‘13 andlos 0 31, 56 and 203. ve IND, 357
From Green River road to 41, 4 miles over Green River road, 66 and 41.
Defense Will Testify Today in Red Probe
WASHINGTON, June 20 (U, P.). ~The defense seeks today to blast the go t's claim that 16 mem of the joint anti-Fascist refugee committee, now on trial for contempt of congress, promoted communism here and abroad. Rep. John 8. Wood (D. Ga.), former chairman of the house un-American activities committee, charged yesterday that the organization posed as a relief Soup while it actually was working to get Communists. into the United States. The 16 members of the refugee committee, all New Yorkers, were cited for contempt for refusing to turn their filles over to the house committee.
free——————— ‘Re-Question Everbody’
CHICAGO, June 20 (U. P)~—
question everybody” in an effort to unearth clues to the strangle slayer
Mrs. Barrows’: second lie detector | test wak. reported “favorable” But
gifts totaling $1000 at the |}.
Police sald today they would “re- |}
sald she and her parents and
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