Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-11-27
Thousands Sent
To Employees By
Local Postoffice
Employees Required To
Execute Blanks And
Return To PostoHice;
Will Be n By
Numbers.

Distribution of thousands of ap-
plication forms for employees under
the Federal Social Security Act was
made Tuesday through the regular
channels of the Salisbury postof-
flee, according to Postmaster, J..
H. Mckenzie.
These applications, known as
Form SIS, r for the purpose of
listing all those who may be eligi-
bic under the old age pension pro-
vision of the Social Security act,
which becomes effective January
l, 1887.
Recently cards were distributed
to all employers in the county and
most of these have been returned,
listing the number Of persons en-
ployed.
All employees who CONS under
the terms of the act are supposed
to fill out the SIS forms and turn
them in to the postoffice, either
by mail, by handing in Or thru
their employers, by December s..
These applications are for an &C
count number and they do not cali
for a statement of wages received,
this information to come from rec
ordssof employers. After the ap-l
plications have been e to the
proper social security office each
employee will be forwarded an &C
count number, which he or she is
admonished to put in a safe place
where it may be available at any
time in the future.
All employed persons are requir-
ed to fill out the applications ex-
cept: Those self-employed; en-
ployes Of railroad industry now
under a separate pension act; agri-
cultural labor; domestic service in
private home; casual labor not in
the course of the employers bust
ness; employees of Federal, state
and local government services per-
formed for any organization not
for private benefit, such as COM
munity chests, etc.
AL employed persons under IS
except those exempted will be en-
titled to benefit from the provi-
sions of the laws, with monthly
checks coming to those reaching
the age of IS years or more after
the act takes effect next January.
The checks will be based on the
amount Of earnings during the per-
iod between January l next and
the sixty-fifth birthday. In no,
case will these be less than $40 al
month and may range up to $S5 al
month from the Federal fund.
Should the employe die before
reaching the age of IS his Or her
estate will be paid a lump sum
equivalent to three and a half per
cent Of the wages earned during|
the time.
After January l next the en-
ployer will take one per cen of the
wages out for the Federal pension
fund and will pay in an additional
one per cent out of his own funds.
This will increase to l IL per cent
from each in 1910, will be two per
cent in 1913 and beginning in
1949 will be three per cent from
each.
If the insured person has not
worked long enough upon reaching
IS to be entitled to a monthly
check a lump sum equal to three
and a half per cent of the wages
earned during the insured period
will be paid over by the Govern
ment.
The social security act also has
provisions for caring for aged indi-
gent persons not under the pension
plan, for crippled children, publicI
health aid and other features now
being made effective.
1t is estimated that about 26(
million people in the United States
will come under the provisions of
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