The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-20
Workers Should
Have S. Security
Account Cards
Il ~

Salisbury, May 1.-THE Social
Security Board today urged all eli
gible workers who have not yet ap-
piled for scial security account num-
bers to do so promptly to expedite
the setting up by June 80 of wage
records for their participation in the
federal old-age benefits program
under the Social Security Act.
After June 80, the Post Office De-
partment will, under present plans,
be assisted in receiving applications
for social security account numbers
by theS ocial Security Board field
office in Salisbury and others locat-
ed in strategic centers throughout
the country. More than 100 such Of
fees are open now and others are to
be opened shortly.
obtaining social security ac-
county number is an important step
in providing protection against the
hazards of oldage for any wage
Garner who might at a future time
be entitled to Federal benefits" Le-
Roy Hodges, Director of the Federal
Old-Age Benefits Bureau of the
Board, said in a statement given Mr..
Lambert.
"Workers in covered employ
ments who have not applied for ac-
count numbers" Mr.. Hodges warn
ed, may be creating difficulties in
determining the proper amount of
old-age benefits to which they will
A',e entitled. Employers will make
periodic reports to the Bureau of
Internal Revenue of wages paid to
each of their employees. Account
number assigned will appear on
these returns. A record of the wages
so reported will be kept by the
Board for use whenever a claim
based on the employees wages is
filed.
employers on June 80 must be
prepared to file their periodic report
on wages earned by their employees
since January l, 1887, when this
part of the social security program
got underway. Thereafter, these in
formational returns will be filed
quarterly. In order properly to
make the return. an employer must
have the social security account
numbers of all his employees which
should have been previously report
ed to him by each worker.
Reporting of the social security
account number on the information
return due June 80, is necessary for
proper recording of the .sorke4 5
wages"
Mr. Hodges directed attention to
Treasury regulation requiring en-
ployers Of one or more employees l.
all those occupations covered by
this part of the Social Security Act
) to file an application for an account
Number.
"Inasmuch as employers will have
to make sure that every employee
has social security account num-
Der to make the required report to
the Treasury Department, it is evil
dent" Mr.. Hodges said, 'that the
more employees in possession of ac-
count number cards now, the fewer
will be the cases in which the en-
ployers will have to take action on
June 3d."
The Bureau director emphasized
that employer-employee participa-
ton in old-age benefits is not-as
enormously assumed in some quar-
ters-dependent on the number of
persons working for an employer.
Even if an employer" Mr..
Hodges pointed out, 'has only one
worker engaged in covered occu-
patton, that worker is required to
apply for a social security account
number. This includes employees in
small establishments as restaurants,
drug and grocery stores, beauty par
lors, and tailoring shops, as well as
employees of doctors, lawyers, and
similar professional people.
'See your Postmaster at once if
you have not yet filed your applica-
ton for social security account
number"
Mr.. Hodges urged that inasmuch
as the Post Office Departments ma
~chinery is so geared now as to as
sign an account number promptly,
employees who have not yet appli-
ed for account numbers should at
once take advantage of these facili-
ties.
Eligible workers may file their
applications either through their
employer, through labor union, or
through a local post office.