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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1950)
9 d em nqent mfg^and cgl a deceased or retired/w om an fyorker. If a.w ornan has 6 quarters of coverage out of the 111-quarter period e n d e d ^ ^ th the quar- ter of her death, her“ children will be eligible for survivor benefits. Benefits may be paid to thei'wife of an insured worker, regardless, of her -age, if she has 'th e w orker’s entitled child in her care. Benefits for dependent parents are raised to 75 percent’ of the prim ary benefit. Benefits for the first child in the family of a deceased w orker are also raised in effect to 75 percent of. the prim ary^insurance amount. A lump sum is paid for all insured deaths. World W ar II are allowed wage credits of $160 for each month of m iliiaf^ sb rv ice from Septem ber 16, 1940, to Ju ly 24, 1947. Titib®Ms| Amendments to Internal Revenue Code; I raises to $3,600 the lim it onifotal annual earnings on which co’htrib ^ ^ ^ W are I paid and benefits computed. The contribution rates, for bo^fe. I employee and employer, are scheduled to be 1% percent for th h c a le n d a r/|||a rs 1950-53/2 perc.ent, for 1954-59, a B ^ r c e n t for 1960-64, 3 per cent for 1965-69, ,yand 3^4 percent th ^ e a fte r.^ T h e self-employed will pay at 1% times these rates. Maternal and Child Welfare Assistance Title III, Amendments to Public As- sistance and M aternal and (S p iel Wel- fare Provisions of the Social Security Act, -makes F e d e r a l grants-in-aid available, beginning October 1, 1950, for' ffigPourth .category of I a ssis ta n c e - aid fto' .the^peedy ‘perm anently- and totally disabled, w holplgS a t least 18 years old. ’’The m atching form ula is the same^a'MfprJold-agesa'Wstance and aid to the blind. All four categories of assistance pre extended to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, but. unde'r spec ial m atching formulas. In the program for aid dependent children, the relative with whom the dependent child is living m ay be in- cluded as a ^ /e ^ ip ie n t^ for 'F e d e ra l matching purposes.- , Aid to the Blind Beginning July 1952, all States ad- m inisterihg federally apppoved’ pro grams of^ i d" to the blind will be I re quired Ito disregard recipients’ earned income up to $50 a month in determ in ing eligibility for and the amount of aid. Before that., date the exemption of earnings is discretionary w ith each State. State plans m ust provide that, in determ ining blindness, there shall be an examination by a ' physician skilled in diseases of the eye or by an optometrist. Until JulyEll 1955, certain S/tate plans; for aid to the blind need not conform to the Federal require m ents^ concerning determ ination of' need, although Federal m atching will? b e „made only w ith respect to those ¿payments that are based , on determ in ation of need in accordance w ith Fed eral requirements. Direct to doctors or others furnishing medical or other rem edial care mayO e matched by the Federal Government, w ithin, .the individual maximums for the several programs. The Federal Government will- share in th e /B H dj of assistance to needy aged, blindBpla perm onently and totally dis- abled persons in certain medical in stitutions. Effective July 1, 1953, a State that makes payments to persons in publie’~br’ private -institutions m ust provide for a State authority th at will bd^resppE^ible for establishing and m aintaining standards for Such in- ^fjO tions. - Authorization for Federal grants fop m aternal and I child health services is "raised-to $16.5 million a year ($15 m il lion ;in the current fiseal year), for services for crippled children to $15 million ($12 million in the current fis cal year), and for child welfare ser- vices to $10 million. Title TV, Miscellaneous Provisions, provides for the re -eBablishment and continuation through 1952 of the loan fund w ithin the Federal unemploy m ent account, which perm its advances ?t,o^ State/ unemployment insurance funds-that ru n low. The law restricts, the authorityjof the Secretary of Dabor to „withhold grants to Stages for ad- rninistration b i unemployment insur ance iiW ertaih'qu^-ions of compliance .A^ith the Federal Unemployment Tax A ^ a n d title III of the Social Security A'ctX?- Tongue Twisters are words th at get you tang all tongueled up.
