Milford chronicle., 1954-09-10
NeLC Amendments TO
The Social Security
LaIOs Listed


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no earnings in computing hil
average wage, and by increas.
ing to $4,000 the amount of an,
nuai earnings that can be
counted toward benefits.
! 4. Preserves for totally disabled
workers any benefit rights they
may have earned before they
became disabled and provides
for their referral to state agen.
cies, for rehabilitation services
3. Permits employed and self-em-
plOyed benedciaries under age
~ to have earnings up to ST.
zoo in a year without loss OF
social security payments, start
ing with 1855. "a beneficiary
70 or over will be able to re-
ceive all his payments regard
less of the amount he may be
earnings.)
mr.. Mllbouer went on to explain
that Of the 10 million more persons
eligible for the protection of old
age and survivors insurance, APP
proximately 6M million will. be
brought into the system on Janu-
airy i, 1865. Another 80 million
may elect coYerage under special
arrangements.
The largest group of gainfully-
employed people in the nation not
heretofore covered by social secur-
ity has now been br0ughtNin-the
3.6 million self-emplOyed farm Op-
orators. Commencing January i.
1865, these farm operators will be
covered on the same terms as other
self-emplOyed people, except for a
provision which simplifies the re-
porting procedure for farm Oper-
ators with low annual. incomes.
AbOlishing the old requirement
that farm workers be regularly. en-
DlOyed by one employer means that
over two million additional farm
employees will have social security
protection for themselves and their
families. The new provision sim
ply requires that the farm hand be
paid 500 cash wages in a calen-
dar year by one employer.
About 100000 more domestic en-
ployees in private households will
be covered by the law because of
the removal of the former require
ment that the domestic employee
work "a days in each calendar
quarter in any one household. Here
the requirement now is the pay
ment Of only $50 cash wages By
one household employer in a cal
endaF quarter.
About 100000 employees of
state and local governments, ex-
cluded up TO now because they are
under a retirement system, may
now be brought under social Sc
cuTity subject to a referendum.
Ministers, whether employed or
self-emplOyed, may come under the
law as if they were self-employed
persons. Included in this provision
are Christian Science practitioners.
Other self-emplOyed groups to be
covered by social security as Of
January /, 1855, are professional
accountants, architects,
and funeral directors.
Immediately effective is the in
crease in monthly payments to per-
sons now getting benefits. These
viii show on the Sep
TENDER checks which will be mailed
early in October.
The present minimum payment
Of SIS to a retired worker has been
raised to $50; the maximum s85
has been increased to $3.50. De-
and survivors now getting
monthly benefits will get proper
tionate increases, with every fam
lily unit assured an increase Of at
least S.. The maximum family pay
ment has been raised from S168. rs
to 5000.
Persons now receiving monthly
do not have to take any
action to get these increases" Mr..
MilbOuer declared. "They will be
made automatically. and do not
have to be applied for, he said.
The amended law also provides
increases for persons who become.
eligible for benefit payments in the
future. Beginning with 1866, the
amount Of covered earnings which
may count toward social security
viii be raised from $500 to S4.
200 in a year. This provision viii