Montana labor news., 1936-12-03
Plans for 0Id-Age
Security Of 100000
Are Now Under Way
Social Security Board An
nounces Details and Releases
Forms.

set up for $4,000, 900 working men
and women Social Security accounts
comparable to annuity insurance
which will enable millions of these
workers to retire at age 65 with a
monthly income for life, the amount
of the income being based on their
previous wage records.
In these accounts all of the &c.
600, 900 persons estimated to be eli
gible will, starting January l, 1887,
begin storing up cash values payable
to the worker at IS or to his family
if he dies before reaching the age
of 65. These cash values will at all
times be substantially larger than
the workers W contributions I'M
der the Social Security Act.
All persons working for salary or
wages excepting those engaged in
agriculture, domestic service in pri-
vate homes, government service, and
in a few other excluded occupations,
are eligible. It is expected that
many of those in occupations not
now covered will eventually become
eligible through occasional or part
time work in those occupations
which are covered.
The Social Security Board empha-
sized the fact that, while this under
taking is of unprecedented proper
tions, the plan in which $4,000 post
offices are now cooperating with the
Board is quite simple and will be
conducted with all possible convent
ence to employers and employees.
Plans have been carefully made,
the Board said, for delivery of the
necessary forms and instructions to
all employers and employees affect
ed within the next few weeks. The
Board urged both employers and
employees, as well as the public at
large, to refrain from making in
quiries either of the Board or at
post offices, concerning their respec-
tive parts in the plan until after re-
ceipt of the official forms and in
structions.
After that, the Board said, postal
authorities in any community and
representatives of the Social Secur-
ity Board in the larger cities and
industrial centers will be available
to answer all questions and to rem
der any other assistance that may be
necessary.
The plan is simply this, the
Boards announcement said:
Beginning on November 16, post
offices throughout the country will
distribute to employers a form
known as the employers Applica-
ton for Identification Number"
This form will ask of the employer
only seven simple questions, answers
to which will enable the Post Office
Department to know how many en-
ployees' application forms to deliver
to each employer.
Then, beginning on November "a,
post offices throughout the country
will distribute to employees, through
their employers, forms known as
Application for Social Security Ac-
count Number" These employees
application forms will be distributed
to all work places and will also be
available, after such distribution, at
all post offices. Local postmasters
will announce when these forms are
available. The employees applica-
ton is a simple form asking a few
questions such as name and address
of the worker, name and address of
his employer, the date and place of
birth, and fathers and mothers
name. When the worker has pro-
vided this information on the appli-
cation he may return it, without
paying any postage, in any of five
ways:
By handing it back to the en-
ployer, or
By handing it to any labor or
ganization of which the worker is
a member, or
By handing it to a letter carrier, or
By delivering it personally to any
local post office, or
By mailing it-without postage
in a sealed envelope addressed
simply: Postmaster, Local"
On the return of this information
to the post office a Social Security
account will be set up for each per-
son eligible and he or she will be
furnished a card-comparable to an
insurance Identification card-certi-
Tying that an account has been set
up and bearing the number Of the
employees Social Security account
SO as to make it easy for the worker
to find out at any time just how his
or her account stands.
The Board at the same time made
public today copies of the three
forms described in the foregoing.