Ida got paid! The rest of us are getting laid...
Ida May Fuller (Wikipedia) (September 6, 1874 – January 1975) was the first American citizen to receive a monthly benefit Social Security check. She received the check, amounting to $22.54, on January 31, 1940.
Fuller was born on a farm outside Ludlow, Vermont. She spent most of her life in Ludlow, working as a legal secretary, but lived with her niece in Brattleboro, Vermont during her last eight years. She retired in 1939, having paid just three years of payroll taxes. She received monthly Social Security checks until her death in 1975 at age 100. By the time of her death, Fuller had collected $22,888.92 from Social Security monthly benefits, compared to her contributions of $24.75 to the system.
1935-1939
The original Social Security Act was mostly a white male program. According to Wikipedia most women and minorities were excluded( “What’s New?” )from receiving benefits from all of the various programs through how employment was defined (Minorities Blacks especially weren’t thought of as people with a future. They knew we wouldn’t live long enough like Ida, to get a check in the mail, ) and through specific listing of the job categories that were or were not covered. Certain jobs were just plain and explicitly excluded from the program. For example, most agricultural workers were excluded, as well as nurses, teachers, hospital workers, librarians, and domestic workers to name just a few.
Since many of the programs were also administered by the states, even more discrimination crept into the programs at that level. Fortunately, the practice of discrimination began to change in the late 1930’s as shifting gender roles and positions of minorities in society began to change. By the 1950’s the debate changed from which occupations should be covered by Social Security to achieving universal coverage.
Wow politicians have been full of shit for along, long time. At least FDR tried, he had the right idea but here comes the Nixon’s and Ford and the Reagans and Bush’s. And that’s what we have today, really nothing but your own ability to perform. What can you contribute to making money in your life forever.
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