Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1961-11-01 / 11. szám
6 FRATERNITY Question: I am unemployed, and I understand men can now get Social Security benefits at age 62. Is this correct? Answer: Effective August 1961, old-age benefits may be paid to men at age 62. A man who takes his benefits as soon as he reaches 62 will get 80% of the monthly benefit he would have been paid at 65 Question: If I apply for Social Security benefits at age 62, can my wife get wife’s benefits if she is also 62. Answer: Yes. The wife of a worker who decides to take his old- age benefits between 62 and 65 will be eligible for wife’s benefits when she is 62. If she takes her wife’s benefits as soon as she reaches 62, she will get 75% of the wife’s benefit that would have been payable to her if she had waited until she was 65. Question: I have never worked at all, since I became totally disabled at age 15. I am now 31, and my father is receiving old-age Social Security checks. Is any benefit due me? Answer: You, or your father, should contact the Social Security office immediately, as the law provides for payments to disabled adult children of retired workers if a disability has existed since before the 18th birthday. Question: I didn’t work long under Social Security, and my check is only $33.00 per month. 1 want to know if the 1961 changes in the law will give me more money? Answer: Under the 1961 amendments, the lowest benefit that workers over 65 will receive will be $40.00, effective August 1961. This increase will be automatic, and there is no need for beneficiaries to apply to the Social Security office. Question: I retired in October 1960 and received my Social Security checks for November and December 1960. In January 1961 I took a new job and had my checks stopped. My earnings for 1961 will be about $6,000.00, but I will not work at all during July and August Will I be entitled to any Social Security benefits for 1961? Answer: Regardless of how much a beneficiary earns in a year, he will get a benefit check for any month in which he neither earns more than S100 in wages, nor performs substantial services in self-employment VACATION TIME IS ANYTIME A survey conducted by a large publishing lnuse reveals that not everyone takes his vacation in the traditional months of June, July and August. In fact, 17.3% of all vacations are now being taken in the spring. 10.47c in the winter and 21.3% in the fall. That’s 49.5% of all vacations' CIGARS FOR THE LADIES? A rich new market is opening up for cigar manufacturers in Germany. Cigar sales have been climbing recently as the result of a fad among German housewives who insist on joining their husbands in an after-dinner stogie.
