Thursday, December 19, 1940
DISTRIBUTE
BIG AMOUNT
Total of $543,933 Paid Out in
Surry Through Social
Security
SINCE ITS BEGINNING
(By M. R. Dunnagan)
Approximately $543,933.00 has
been distributed in Surry county
through operation of nine of the
ten divisions of the Social Securi
ty Act, from its beginning and
through June 30, 1940, it is esti
mated, on a basis of official fig
ures, by Charles G. Powell, chair
man of the N. C. Unemployment
Compensation Commission.
Normally, unemployment com
pensation, or benefits to workers
temporarily out of Jobs, is  the
largest item in the program, ex
cept in agricultural counties. The
more and larger the industries a
county has, the more jobless ben
efits it gets. In the 2y 2 years of
benefit payments, through June
30, these benefits reached $213,-
330.23, included in 31,848 checks
Issued to residents of Surry coun
ty.
Chairman Powell reports that
State agencies handling phases of
the Social Security Act cooperate
with him in supplying figures of
their activities, whicji gives him
an accurate picture of distribu
tions in counties of the State.
These include the State Welfare
Department, Mrs. W. T. Bost, su-
perintendent, and Nathan H. Yel
\ton, director of public assistance;
\Dr. Roma S. Cheek, secretary of
fthe State Commission for the
/ Blind; Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State
health officer; and the Depart
ment of Public Instruction, par
ticularly T. E. Browne, director of
vocational education.
Old Age Assistance, help for
needy residents past 65 years of
age, in the three years of distri
bution, through last June 30,
> amounted to $140,922.04 in this
county.
Aid to Dependent Children,
help for those deprived of their
normal breadwinners, amounted
to $48,896.50 in the same period
in this county.
Aid to the Blind, in the same
36 months, amounted to $13,-
099.04 in the county. ,
IrT these three divisions of the
Social Security Act, the Federal
Government provides one-half of
the funds and the State and
\\ counties one-fourth each, with a
I State equalizing fund to help the
smaller counties. Prior to Jan
uary 1, 1940, these three govern
mental units furnished one-third
each for Aid to Dependent Chil
dren.
No county figures are available
for Old Age and Survivors In
surance. Monthly payments to
this division started after Jan
uary 1, 1940, due to a 1939
amendment, after lump-sum pay
ments for three years. This will,
in due time, become one of the
V. most important of the five major
divisions of the Social Security
Act.
Wih practically accurate fig
ures, it is .evident, Mr. Powell
points out, that about $416,248.00
was distributed in this county to
July 1 in four of the five major
divisions of the act, exclusive of
Old Age and Survivors Insurance.
In the other five divisions,
classed as "services," approxi
mately $127,685.00 has been dis
tributed in this county, including
about $2,560.00 in Child Welfare
Services and about $4,985.00 in
Vocational Rehabilitation.
Disbursement of funds in the
other three "services" is made
i through county or district health
r departments, and only 76 of the
' 100 counties having such depart
ments June 30, 1940, participated
in this distribution. (Three other
eounties Gates, Lincoln and
Rockingham started organized
health work as of July 1, 1940,
but did not share in the funds in
the period being considered.)
Twenty-four counties, therefore,
received practically no funds in
these divisions, and what they
would have received, and didn't,
increased the funds to counties
with health departments.
Surry county, with a health de
partment, received $22,680.00 for
Maternal and Child Health Ser
/■pes; $19,665.00 for Services to
JR-ippled Children; and $77,795.00
/in Public Health Work.
These five "service" division
reports are approximate. The
1940 Census figures of 3,561,990
for the State and 41,748 for this
county were used in prorating the
funds, made up of Federal allot
ments, matched by the state and
counties.
Surry county, central UCC of-
Xfice records show, has 90 resi
dent employers subject to the
t Compensation law
I and 5,409 workers protected by it.
/ Liable resident employers paid
$348,367.74 into the State fund in
3% years, ending last June 30, as
compared with $213,330.23 in
benefits drawn in years, also
ending June 30, by resident work
ers in the county.
The records show that in 30
months of payments, Unemployed
workers to tl\e county filed 10,409
TO GIVE CHRISTMAS
PROGRAM DEC. 22nd
| A Christmas program will be
presented at Elkin Valley Baptist
church on the evening of Decem
ber 22, at 7:30 by members of the
church school. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
The church also extends an in
vitation to the pubic to attend
Sunday school each Sunday
morning at 9:45. George M.
Walters is superintendent of the
Sunday school and James B.
Mitchell is assistant superintend
ent.
CARTER INFANT
DIES THURSDAY
Lanola Carter, infant daugh
ter of Mr! and Mrs. Harvey L.
Carter, died suddenly during the
night Thursday at the home near.
Elkin. Funeral services were
held Friday afternoon from Lit
tle Richmond Baptist church.
initial claims— I the first claims
filed after becoming unemployed
—and 79,299 continued calms—
claims filed weekly after the ini
tial claims.
Employment Service records in
dicate that in the 3 & years,
through June 30, 11,286 registra
tions for work and 2,578 place
ments in jobs were handled in the
county.
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