YOUR NEW SUCH! SECURITY
One o# the important features of the
■amended social security law is the ex
tension of old-age and survivors in
surance (to regularly employed house
hold workers.
This new law will he important to
the household workers—(the maid or
the cook—and also to her employer.
The household worker regularly em
ployed in one household will become
eligible to build toward Federal in
surance benefit payments which are
made to persons 65 years of age after
retirement and to heirs of deceased
persons. The household employer of
such a worker will have responsibili
ty for the collection of the social se
curity tax from .the household work
er and report of wages paid the work
er to the Collector of Internal Revenue.
To make (this as easy as possible
a for the people involved, the Bureau
of Old-tAlge and Survivors Insurance
and the Bureau of Internal Revenue
have jointly devised a simple report
form for this purpose. It provides
space for the household worker’s
name and social security number, and
a space for recording the total amount
off the employee’s cash wages during
a .three-month period.
A three-month period is a calendar
period. That is, three months begin
ning with January, April, July and
October. The household employer who
hires a maid, cook, or any other house
hold worker on a regular bans will
mail the report together with the soc
ial security tax to the Collector of
Internal Revenue at the end of each
three-month period.
The tax is three percent of the regu
lar household worker’s cash wages for
the three-month period. Half of this
tax (1 Vi % ) may be deducted from the
worker’s cash wages; the employer
will contribute the other 1%%.
Now about ithe word “regular.” A
household worker is a “regular” work
er if he or she works on at least 24
different days for the one household
employer in a three-month period and
is paid cash wages not less than SSO.
She is still “covered” during the next
three months if she is paid SSO. No
report is made for a worker employed
for an average of less than .wo days
a week because such a worker would
not meet the 24-day test for work
in that household.
The term “cash wages” is used be
cause meals and board can not be
counted as wages in determining the
SSO minimum for social security cov
erage. The household employer, mo; e
over, is not concerned with any wages
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and Barred Rock as in the past.
Place your orders early, as
the early chicks are the ones
that pay off.
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EDENTON, N. C.
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On the household worker’s part, it
■ is important that she op he have a
- solcial security card. Those regular
household workers who have never
) had a social security number, or have
lost their card, or have changed their
nam6 should visit or write the Social
. Security Office and get one.
, I have mentioned cooks and maids,
. but butlers, practical nurses, chauf
feurs and any other regular worker
. for one employer in a private house-
I hold will also be considered a house
l hold worker and eligible ‘ for old-age
. and survivors insurance protection un
. der the new social security law begin
. ndng in January.
If you are interested in more spe
cific information on whether the new
, provisions about household workers af
fect you, contact your Social Security
, Office in the Flatiron Building, Nor
> folk, Va., or .the Collector of Internal
; Revenue, Greensboro, N. C. A reprc
j sentaitive from each of these offices is
5 regularly in this area.
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Sweet Potato Group
Plans State Meeting
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'Sweet potato growers from througi-l
I out the State will meet in the audi-|
, torium of the Agricultural Building j
at Goldsboro on Friday, February 2,
[ at 2:30 P. M., for the purpose cf estaib-1
the Railroads ||P^ liP|-| 1
- PI I • Washington, D. c.
the labor Unions seek to I kaL^SSuS’ZZ.
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Vll/11 I J ... the railroads accepted the recommen- | estern Differential al ra inmen) I
dations of President Trutnan’s Emergency I sages age Limitation (ConH.w oubie Header and T on /
Board. The union leaders refused. I Territories) ° n (Conductors and Trainmen, all' /
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Finally an Agreement was signed at the White ■ _ 7. Quarterly 1 ' ’° Ur I
| House on December 21, 1950. Now the union | °{ living index ll f tment of wages on h, I
I^ll 111 leaders seek to repudiate the Agreement. I adjustment April uSSf t 0 1* Per hour baSi |i°s. COSt
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mm ™ ■■ ■ ■ this Agreement into effect immediately, with |
■ back pay at the rates and date indicated. | * |
The Agreement is given in full below. I
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We are publishing this and other advertisements to talk to you
■ at first hand about matters which are important to everybody. bSSSBSSHHSSbI I^.
THE CHOWAN HE&AUP BPBNTON, N. C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 1,1951.
lishing a North Carolina Sweet Pota
to Growers Association.
The meeting is being sponsored by
the North Carolina Farm Bureau.
Members of the State Department of
Agriculture and the State College Ex
tension Servibe will attend.
J. V. Whitfield of Burgaw, who rep
resents this area of the United States
on the Fruit and Vegetable Committee
of the American Bureau Federation,
will preside. AH sweet potato grow
ers are invited.
*H. M. Covington, extension horti
culture specialist, says growers have
felt the need for a State association
for several years. Purposes of such
an organization, he adds, would be
to promote better dissemination of in
formation pertaining to production and
marketing, represent growers on leg
islative matters that affect the in
dustry, advise and assist local and
State leaders with research and exten-
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GUM POND CLUB MEETS
The Gum Pond Home Demonstration
Club met Tuesday evening, January 2,
with Mrs. Ellie Bunch with 15 mem
bers present.
The president, Mrs. Charlie Peele,
called the meeting to order by a short
devotion, followed by the club collect.
The roll was called, dues collected and i
minutes read of the previous meet
ing. I
The joint meeting for February was ,
discussed.
Miss Rebecca Colwell talked about I
leadership, parliamentary laws, and i
keeping the achievement sheet up to
date.
'Mrs. Marvin Smith led two contests. .
The hostess served ice cream, cakes
and nuts.
ERROR IN P & Q AD
Acknowledgement is made of an er
ror apearing in the P & Q Food Cen
ter’s advertisement last week. In the
ad No. 2% glass Del Monte peaches
were advertised at 30 cents. The price
should have been 39 cents instead, but
the error was not detected until the
paper was printed.
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