On this date, in 1940, Ida May Fuller collected the first monthly social security check. $22.54.
The government official pictured with Ida gently reminds her to not spend it all in one place.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Ida May Fuller Gets 1st Social Security Check
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I believe the gentelman pictured is a young future Senator Kennedy asking Ida if she would "like to cash her check at the Deli and take a ride out to Lake Park". Just a guess on my part though.
I suspect it's a young conservative and he wants her to give back the check.
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