Jan 31
WASHINGTON — Seventy-three years ago to the day, Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vt., was issued the first Social Security check.
“It wasn’t that I expected anything, mind you, but I knew I’d been paying for something called Social Security and I wanted to ask the people in Rutland about it,” Fuller said of her trip to the nearby Social Security office a few months earlier, according to the Social Security Administration.
On Jan. 31, 1940, the office issued Fuller a check for $22.54.
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