{"id":7914,"date":"2018-11-09T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:58:47","slug":"social-security-death-benefits-in-the-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7914","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Death Benefits in the 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I never gave it much thought. The probate settlement of John J. Trautvetter mentions a receipt for $22.06 for &#8220;Social Securities compensation.&#8221; This appears to have been paid out to his mother, based on the fact that it was the same amount, $22.06, where it was listed as &#8220;Social Security benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HuN1ssYACs4\/TqVjcn43ukI\/AAAAAAAAAeQ\/9PD4KCRmQZI\/s1600\/john_j_trautvetter.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HuN1ssYACs4\/TqVjcn43ukI\/AAAAAAAAAeQ\/9PD4KCRmQZI\/s400\/john_j_trautvetter.JPG\" width=\"519\" height=\"336\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\">I&#8217;m not certain there would be any real records related to John. This is one of the few estates I have during the early 1930s where the deceased was someone who would have paid into Social Security and would have had a mother (no children) as an heir. John was working for a trucking company in Quincy, Illinois, at the time of his death in 1937.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TltxJQAv6iU\/TqVjeB0LF0I\/AAAAAAAAAeY\/34TMZwsUsD0\/s1600\/john_j_trautvetter_2.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TltxJQAv6iU\/TqVjeB0LF0I\/AAAAAAAAAeY\/34TMZwsUsD0\/s400\/john_j_trautvetter_2.JPG\" width=\"506\" height=\"358\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\">I am not certain just how much information there would be in these records or how helpful they would be in this case.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I never gave it much thought. The probate settlement of John J. Trautvetter mentions a receipt for $22.06 for &#8220;Social Securities compensation.&#8221; This appears to have been paid out to his mother, based on the fact that it was the same amount, $22.06, where it was listed as &#8220;Social Security benefits.&#8221; I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}