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SOCIAL SECURITY NOTES; By Not air Mad do* I received two letters which illus trate one type of benef/its payable under the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program, which is not fully understood. The first one says, "My wife and I are well along In years and We are being supported by our unmarried daughter, who has a good position where she pays Into Social Security. At times we tret to thinking about what would nappen to use if rfhe died before We did. Would we get anything from Social Security? The other letter reads: "I am a widow 50 years old and without chil dren. My closest relatives are my parents who live with me and are supported by me. 1 do rtot under stand why I should be required to pay Social Security taxes, because my friends told me that widows and children are the only relatives who can draw monthly payments. If my parents won't be eligible for Social Security benefits In the e/ent of my death why Should 7 pay the tax?" The answer to both letters was that the parents could bet benefits beoause It is obvious that they are chiefly dependent upon their dau ghter. Of course, proof of depend ency would be required at the time of filing their applications. "Chiefly dependent" means that the daughters provide more than SO percent of the total cost of the par ent's support. The Social Security Act says that parents, age 65 or over, may receive monthly payments when an insured son ord aughter dies, If they were chiefly dependent upon the child for their support at the time tl^ child died, and provided Over Six Million Vets Had Training Approximately 6,340,000 veterans have had some sort of GI Bin train ing 41 nee the law went Into effect In June, 1944, according to the Veterans Administration. f I Classroom studies attracted most of the ex-servicemen, tyore than 93 percent were enrolled in schools, 6 per cent in Job training establish ments, and 1 per cent in institution al on-farm training. The College students in age are the youngest group of veteran train ees. Their average age is 25, com pared with an over-till average ? for veterans in all types of training? of 26,6 years. ! Institutional on-farm trainees, with an average age of nearly 30, were the oldest. Job trainees aver- ' Che child was not survived by a wi dow or unmarried chHd who could become entitled to monthly bene- 1 ! fits. If the parents are not 65 or over ' when the child dies, a lump-sum death payment would be made to whomever paid the burial expenses,1 and the parents, If chiefly depend ent, would still begin to get monthly benefits when they dM reach age 65. They must, however, file appli cations before payments could be made. Parents Include also a step-par ent and an adopting parents if this relationship existed before the child was 16 years old. Our office in Gastonia is located at 206 Post Office Building. A representative of this office cometo to City Hall in Kings Moun tain first and third Wednesdays of each month at 10 a. m. SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD aged 27 years of age, and veterans in sdhools below the college level averaged 28. ? The average veteran, at the time he entered training, already had had three years of high school. Slightly over 50 per cem of them have one or more dependent*. Ninety-nine out of every 100 veterans in training are males. These are among the conclusions in a Veterans ^Administration study of characteristics of veterans , in training under the GI Bill. The study recently completed, was based on VA data as of November 30, 1948. The averages apply generally today, VA said. The study revealed that 65 per cent of the veterans-trainees had had some high school training at the time they entered their GI Bill Cour ses. Eighteen per cent had gone to college, while 17 percent had not progressed beyond elementary school. 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