ADD 21,150 TO PENSION LISTS, MCNUTT REVEALS
Add 21,150 To Pension Lists, McNutt Reveals Monthly Payments Reach $1,174,000, Savs FSA Head WASHINGTON, D. C. — Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt has announced that 21,150 persons had...
...McNutt said that total claims approved from Jan...
...Income in April was reported at $625,000,000 compared with $568,000.-000 in April a year ago...
...During April, 1940...
...April awards add $377,516 to the level of monthly payments bringing it to $1,173,933 a month...
...On thc other hand, half of its farms get only 6 per cent of thc Income...
...established an Itinerate service operating from the field offices: geared its adjudicating machinery to handle claims with a minimum of delay: and recorded wage items of some 35,000,000 workers as submitted by more than 2,000,000 employers...
...Lump Sum Aids Mr...
...Appeals Council In reviewing the first four months of operation the administrator pointed out that during this period the board has also set up an appeals council...
...or at his death, whatever his age...
...Physical Exams Under Scrutiny WASHINGTON, I...
...to his children under 18 years of age...
...6.307 7.7.692 Children...
...she said in announcing the members...
...However, labor complaints that this selective process has become so refined that thousands of workers well able to perform their job tasks are screened out from employment be-ratise of relatively minor physical deGendron Named Bonneville Aid PORTLAND, Ore.—U...
...In the first four months of 1939...
...1 to April 30...
...received $1,917,124 upen the death of insured workers: 23.-622 claimants received $2,148,198 under the old law as the result of deaths occurring prior to Jan...
...He has held successive positions in the U. S. department of labor, health service, snipping board, NRA, PWA and at Bonneville...
...In reporting these figures to the administrator the Social Security board noted that, the number of claims from retired workers over 65 years of age and from their wives past 65 wes exceeding advance estimates by nearly 20 per cent...
...The January-April income last year and this, respectively, by major classes included: Grains...
...12.185 149,567 8,130 Widows with young children...
...Introduced among some of the larger industrial enterprises 20 years ago, thc practice of requiring job applicants lo undergo physical tests and meet specific standards has expanded rapidly in recent years...
...256,000,000 and $327,000,-000...
...Wage earners and their employers share the cost by paying special taxes, and monthly benefits are paid as a right no matter what other income the family may have...
...or in some cases to his dependent parents over 65...
...Labor Is frankly apprehensive about pre-employment physical examinations of workers because it is viewed as an obstacle In the way of a worker marketing his services...
...38,915 $849,621 Aged wives of retired workers...
...The income included $2,258,000,000 from the sale of products and $357,-000,000 from government benefit payments...
...Through its adjudication machinery, the board is handling claims as rapidly as they are filed...
...He was one of the first appointees under the late J. D. Ross, first to head the agency...
...opened 132 new field offices, bringing the total to 460...
...C. — Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins has named a committee to inquire Into the physical examination of workers, particularly as related to pre-employment requirements...
...Claims from widows, orphan children, and other dependents in the case of the death of the bread-winner were lagging behind estimates...
...4,561 92,92.-, These insurance payments, the administrator explained, go to any qualified commercial or industrial worker at age 65 or over, to his wife at age 65...
...The post Is a new one, recently created by congressional amendment to the Bonneville act, federal statute under which the Bonneville administration operates...
...A total of 13.149 claimants, who were not now eligible to monthly benefits under the amended Social Security Act...
...including monthly benefits and death benefits under the original and amended acts, aggregated more than 100.000 or approximately 1.000 every working day...
...J. Gendron, federal civil service career man, was named assistant Bonneville administrator lost week...
...Farm Income 2 Billion In 1st 4 Months WASHINGTON, D. C—The agriculture department reported that American farmers received a cash income of $2,615,000,000 during the first four months of this year, or 12 per cent more than in the corresponding period last year...
...The department explained that the January-April income report did not reflect recent sharp declines in prices of grains and cotton, which did not occur until after Germany invaded the low countries this month...
...Thc plan Is usually urged as a medium for Increasing work efficiency and reducing accident costs...
...Following is a break-down of the 62.364 claims for monthly benefits which have been aDoroved to date: Amount Number of of benefit* ¦ wardft per month Retired workers...
...the income from marketing was $2,059,000,000 and from benefit payments $282,000,000...
...21,863 completed claims for monthly benefits were filed, and 21,150 were approved...
...It Will Win New Readers Arizona Is Site of Field Factories THAT Factories in the Fields are not confined to California was brought out in testimony before the La Follette committee showing that 1,000 farms, comprising 7.0 per cent of all farms In Arizona, absorb 54 per cent of Arizona's total farm income...
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...dairy products, $425,000,-000 and $479,000,000, and poultry and eggs, $192,000,000 and $191,000,000...
...Gendron has served as executive assistant to the Bonneville administrator since 1937...
...McNutt noted also that more than $4,000,000 had been paid out during the first four months of this year in lump-sum death claims...
...1, 1940...
...The department said the increase, which was fiie?ter than normal, was due to larger returns from cattle, wheat, truck crops, strawberries and tobacco...
...Add 21,150 To Pension Lists, McNutt Reveals Monthly Payments Reach $1,174,000, Savs FSA Head WASHINGTON, D. C. — Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt has announced that 21,150 persons had been added to thc old-age and survivors insurance rolls in April, bringing Ihe total number of persons now awarded regular monthly benefits to 62.364...
...Thc appointment came as a promotion...
...Gendron received his first government appomtmenc 28 years ago to a post in the Philippine Lslands...
...to his widow at age 65, or if she has young children under 18 years of age...
...meat animals, $683,000,000 and $712,000,000...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
