Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-02-02
QUESTIONS and
ANSWERS
ABOUT
Old-Age Insurance

| QUESTION: l run small dry
goods and notion shop in which I en-
plOy four people, and have just re-
ceived a wage and tax return to fill
out for the last three months. One of
my salesgirls was married during the
Christmas holidays. Should / record
her married name on the wage report
or her maiden name as l did on the
LIST report?
ANSWER: The answer to your
question depends upon whether or not
the girl you mention wants to be
called by her married name when she
is in your store. Some women like to
keep their maiden names in connec-
tion with their work. You should not
record her married name on the wage
report unless she notifies the Social
Security Board of the change in
name. To do this, she should write the
nearest field Office Of the Board tell
ing them she wishes to change her
name on the Boards records. The
field Office will send her a form to fill
out and mail to the Board. Unless the
Board knows that your employees
name is changed, it will not be able
to credit her account with her recent
wages, because her account was set
up originally in her maiden name.
Even though her name is changed, her
account number remains the same.
This account number must be record
ed on the wage report opposite the
same name, in which her account was
originally set up, unless tshe Board
knows that the name has been
changed.
! QUESTION: AS the proprietor of a
hardware store, l received some time
ago an inquiry from the Social Sc
curity Board regarding the name of
one of my employees which / listed on
the wage report l sent in last August.
This inquiry refers to the addition of
Junior" to the name. This employees
father died last July and he has not
been using the Junior" since then.
So thought / was correct in leaving
off the Junior" in the last report.
Can you tell me if l am not right
about this, especially as 1 have just
received a new report to fill in for the
quarter ending December 81.
! ANSWER: If you answered the in
quiry from the Social Security Board
and explained that the "Junior" on
the name. of your employee has been
dropped, you should record the name
without the Junior on the new re-
port. If, however, you have not yet
answered the inquiry, you should
notify the Board Immediately. Your
employee, himself, should notify the
Board of the change in name, SO that
it can correct its records accordingly.
The reason the Board must be notified
is because this employees account, as
originally set up, was under the name
he used before he dropped the Gum
ior", and unless the Board knows of
the change in the name, it has no way
of knowing that the wages you re-
ported should be credited to his ac-
count. If your employee will call or
write the nearest field office of the
Board, he will be informed how to
proceed to have his name officially
changed on the Boards records.
QUESTION: l operate a small saw
mill and among my employees is
man who works for a couple of hours
day sweeping out the sawdust from
the mill. Should / list this mans
wages on my wage report? Does not
work of this kind come under the
head of casual labor" which is ex-
cluded from cOverage by the Social
Security Act?
ANSWER: Sweeping sawdust from
your mill does not come under the
head of Casual labor" as defined by
the Social Security Act because 1t is
work done as part of your regular
trade or business. The wages of your
employee who does this work must be
included when you compute your tax
due the Federal Government. You
must record this mans wages with
his name and social security account
number on your wage and tax report.
He does not work as many hours as
your other employees who operate
machinery or do the handling, but re-
moving sawdust is, on the other hand,
a necessary part of the general work
which must be done in your mill, in
order to carry on your business.