{"id":86556,"date":"2025-08-16T06:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86556\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T06:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:12:24","slug":"vermonter-was-the-first-to-collect-social-security-check-under-1940-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86556\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermonter was the first to collect Social Security check under 1940 law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Thursday marks the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act, and a Vermonter was one of the first recipients of the new federal program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/news\/2025\/08\/14\/social-securitys-90th-anniversary-is-marked-by-funding-threats-privatization-talk\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/news\/2025\/08\/14\/social-securitys-90th-anniversary-is-marked-by-funding-threats-privatization-talk\/\">he vowed it would provide economic stability to older people while giving the U.S. \u201can economic structure of vastly greater soundness.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On January 31, 1940, the first monthly retirement check was issued to Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont, for $22.54. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fuller had retired in 1939 as a legal secretary and started collecting the benefits. She lived to be 100 years old, dying in 1975.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Today, the program provides benefits to almost 69 million Americans monthly. It\u2019s a major source of income for people over 65 and is popular across the country and political lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Thursday marks the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act, and a Vermonter was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530,733,27076,34752],"class_list":["post-86556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-social-security","tag-vermont","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}