Ida May Fuller

Infobox Person
name = Ida May Fuller


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birth_date = birth date|1874|9|6|mf=y
birth_place = Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
death_date = January 1975
death_place = Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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Ida May Fuller (September 6, 1874 – January 1975) was the first American citizen to receive a monthly benefit Social Security check. She received the check, amounting to $22.54, on January 31, 1940.

Fuller lived her entire life in Brattleboro, Vermont and worked as a legal secretary. She retired in 1939, having paid just three years of payroll taxes. She received monthly Social Security checks until her death in 1975 at age 100. By the time of her death, Fuller had collected $22,888.92 from Social Security monthly benefits, compared to her contributions of $24.75 to the system.

External links

* [http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/imf.html Ida May Fuller] (accessed 2007-09-27)
* [http://www.ssa.gov/history/idapayroll.html Details of Ida May Fuller's Payroll Tax Contributions] (accessed 2007-09-27)