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Meet Ida May Fuller, recipient of 1st Social Security check
Seventy-five years ago, the government cut 65-year-old Ida May Fuller a check. It was numbered 00-000-001 — the first Social Security payout.
In this Oct. 4, 1950, photo, Ida May Fuller, 76, displays a Social Security check for $41.30 that she received at her home in Ludlow, Vt. On Jan. 31, 1940, Fuller received the country’s first Social Security check for $22.54. By the time she died in 1975 at age 100, she had received nearly $23,000 in benefits.
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