The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1957-10-24

More than 100000 disabled
workers all over the Nation have
been notified that they are en-
titled to social security disability
insurance benefits and will re-
ceivc their first benefit checks
during August, Robert B. You
mans district manager Of the
GAINESVILLE social security office
announced today. Most Of the
checks will be delivered August
3 and the remaining ones will
be mailed on following days.
In making this announcement,
Mr.. YoumanS noted that action
is being taken as speedily as
possible on all disability applica-
tions and that many other dis
abled workers, who may not yet
have received notice Of final
action on their applications, will
be receiving their first checks
in coming months. No further
action is necessary on their part,
he said.
In the first six months of 1857,
applications for these new dis
ability insurance benefits in
creased to a rate of about 10000
a week throughout the Nation.
Although social security benefit
checks for a particular month are
ordinarily mailed out for deli
very on the third of the. follow
ing month, the heavy load of
disability applications slowed up
processing and made it impos-
sible to get checks issued on
August 3 to all who are entitled
to disability benefits for the
month of July.
All disabled workers who meet
the requirements OF the law, and
whose applications have been
filed with their social security
offices before the end of Decem-
Der 1857, Mr., Youmans said, will
get benefit payments for the
months of July through Decem-
Der, payments cannot be made
for any month before the month
of application.
In order to get disability in
Surance benefits, a person must
be between SO and 65 years of
age and must have a long-lasting
disability so severe that he is
not able to engage in any sub
stantial gainful activity. He must
have worked under social sec
urity for five out Of the ten
years before he became disabled,
including a year and half out
of the 3 years Just before his
disability began
In addition to the disability
benefit sections of the law which
provide for d partial replace
ment of earnings during a dis
abIed workers middle year,
there is a 1854 amendment to the
law providing that disabled peo-
pie of any age who meet the dis
ability and work requirements
may apply to have their social
security records frozen. When a
workers. social security record is
frozen, his own and his family'S
future benefit rights are pro-
tected
Those clergymen who did not
file waiver certificates before
April IS, 1857 and lost THEN
right to elect Coverage as self
employed persons under the old
age, survivors, and disability
insurance program now have
another chance An amendment
to the Internal Revenue Code
which President Eisenhower
signed into law on August 80,
1857, gives them an extended
period for two more years Tin
general, through April Is, 1882
to secure old-age, survivors, and
disability protection for them
selves and their families, Robert
B. Youmans, manager of the
GAINESVILLE social security district
office said today.
Ministers who file waivers dur
ing this extended period will be
mandatorily covered for 1856 and
subsequent years for which they
have net earnings from self-em-
ployment of $400 or more, in
Guiding earnings from the pursuit