little over $23 a month from the Government as long as you live after your
65th birthday.



IF YOU SHOULD DIE BEFORE AGE 65


If you should die before you begin to get your monthly checks, your family
will get a payment in cash, amounting to 31/2 cents on every dollar of wages
you have earned after 1936. If, for example, you should die at age 64, and
if you had earned $25 a week for 10 years before that time, your family
would receive $455. On the other hand, if you have not worked enough to
get the regular monthly checks by the time you are 65, you will get a lump
sum, or if you should die your family or estate would get a lump sum. The
amount of this, too, will be 31/2 cents on every dollar of wages you earn
after 1936.




Taxes



The same law that provides these old-age benefits for you and other
workers, sets up certain new taxes to be paid to the United States
Government. These taxes are collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue of
the U. S. Treasury Department, and inquiries concerning them should be
addressed to that bureau. The law also creates an "Old-Age Reserve