Security in Your Old Age

Security in Your Old Age
(Informational Service Circular
No. 9) [with accents]

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Title: Security in Your Old Age (Informational Service Circular No. 9)
Author: Social Security Board
Release Date: August, 2005 [EBook #8666] [Yes, we are more than
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[Note: According to the Social Security Administration website, this
pamphlet was published in 1936.]

Security in Your Old Age
Social Security Board
Washington, D.C.
To Employees of Industrial and Business Establishments

FACTORIES--SHOPS--MINES--MILLS--STORES OFFICES AND
OTHER PLACES OF BUSINESS

Beginning November 24, 1936, the United States Government will set
up a Social Security account for you, if you are eligible. To understand
your obligations, rights, arid benefits you should read the following
general explanation.
There is now a law in this country which will give about 26 million
working people something to live on when they are old and have
stopped working. This law, which gives other benefits, too, was passed
last year by Congress and is called the Social Security Act.

Under this law the United States Government will send checks every
month to retired workers, both men and women, after they have passed
their 65th birthday and have met a few simple requirements of the law.

WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU
This means that if you work in some factory, shop, mine, mill, J. store,
office, or almost any other kind of business or industry, you will be
earning benefits that will come to you later on. From the time you are
65 years old, or more, and stop working, you will get a Government
check every month of your life, if you have worked some time,(one day
or more) in each of any 5 years after 1936, and have earned during that
time a total of $2,000 or more.
The checks will come to you as a right. You will get them regardless of
the amount of property or income you may have. They are what the law
calls "Old-Age Benefits" under the Social Security Act. If you prefer to
keep on working after you are 65, the monthly checks from the
Government will begin coming to you whenever you decide to retire.

The Amount of Your Checks

How much you will get when you are 65 years old will depend entirely
on how much you earn in wages from your industrial or business
employment between January 1, 1937, and your 65th birthday. A man
or woman who gets good wages and has a steady job most of his or her
life can get as much as $85 a month for life after age 65. The least you
can get in monthly benefits, if you come under the law at all, is $10 a
month.

IF YOU ARE NOW YOUNG
Suppose you are making $25 a week and are young enough now to go
on working for 40 years. If you make an average of $25 a week for 52
weeks in each year, your check when you are 65 years old will be $53 a
month for the rest of your life. If you make $50 a week, you will get
$74.50 a month for the rest of you life after age 65.

IF YOU ARE NOW MIDDLE-AGED

But suppose you are about 55 years old now and have 10 years to work
before you are 65. Suppose you make only $15 a week on the average.
When you stop work at age 65 you will get a check for $19 each month
for the rest of your life. If you make $25 a week for 10 years, you will
get a little over $23