The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-01-11
cOVERAGE OF SOCIAL
SECURITY EXTENDED
AND TAX RATE RAISED

AMI IAN NAI6 NAISEO
The beginning of 1867 marks an
important development in the So
cial security insurance program.
About 8 million members of the
uniformed services will come under
the law; many totally disabled
children over 10 will start getting
monthly payments; self-employed
lawyers, dentists, and some other
professional people will have
completed their first year under the
program, and many farm landlords
will be able to report their 1856
income from farm rentals for So
cial security purposes.
with the start of 1857, old-age,
survivors, and disability insurance
becomes a significant economic fac
tor in the future of nearly every
person who works for living"
Vernon Motley, field representative
of the Norfolk social security
office, declared today.
Benefits at the end of 1856 are
being paid to 100000 persons at
the rate of $485 million a month.
Insurance benefit payments to
women beginning at age 62 first
became payable for November and
already $4,000 women in the g.
65 age group have started getting
monthly checks.
Members of the nations armed
forces are the largest of the groups
newly covered by the 1856 changes
in the law. About three million in
number, they will start in January
to earn old-age, survivors, and dis
ability insurance protection on the
same contributory basis as about
55 million civilian workers earn
theirs. Social security taxes will be
deducted from the pay of members
of the armed forces, and the gov
eminent, like other employers, will
pay an equal amount. Members of
the armed forces received gratui-
tous social security credit for mil
itary service in World War II and
up to January /, 1857, but they
made no tax contribution for this
coverage.
About 100000 self-employed
lawyers, dentists, osteopaths, vet
erinarians, chiropractors, nature
paths, and optometrists were also
brought under the law by the 1856
amendments. Since they are COW
cred by the law in their first tax
able year ending after 1866, they
will get social security credit for
their 1856 earnings. Along with
the self-employed people who were
previously covered by the law,
they will pay their social security
self-employment tax in 1857 at the
time they file their 1856 income
tax returns.
The year 1856 can count tow9.:..
social security protection for
about 100000 farm owners who
rent their farms to others but who
participate in the farming opera
ton. If the farm landlord has an
agreement with the renter or
sharecropper under which the land
lord participates materially in the
operation or management of the
crops or livestock, the farm land
lords income from the land counts
toward social security.
At the end of the year, approx
mately 60 percent of the 10 million
persons past age 65 who are with
out income from employment were
receiving old-age and survivors in
surance benefits.
Over 60 percent of the paternal
orphans in the country were re-
ceiving survivors insurance bene-
fits.
The following table shows the
estimated number of people receiv-
ing old-age and survivors insurance
benefits and the amounts being
paid each month.