Ida May Fuller

The first Social Security recipient. She paid 24.75$ in social security taxes in total over 3 years until her retirement at age 65 in 1939. Her first monthly check was for $22.54. By the time she died at age 100 in 1975, she had received $22,888.92 in social security benefits.

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