January 31st, 2021
| Company: | U.S. Social Security Administration |
| Web site: | http://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html |
Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, VT, received the first monthly retirement check—in the amount of $22.54. Fuller had worked for three years under the Social Security program (which had been established by legislation in 1935). The accumulated taxes on her salary over those three years were $24.75. She lived to be 100 years old, collecting $22,888 in Social Security benefits.
Source: www.answers.com/topic/first-social-security-check-issued#ixzz21Sj1m3DG
