Word: ssa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police could not find him, and neither could a private-detective agency. Helen Michaels, who has two teenage children, eventually went to the Social Security Administration to collect her husband's back social security payments. But the SSA told Mrs. Michaels that the money could not be transferred until her husband was accounted for. If there was still no sign of him seven years after his disappearance, the SSA said, she could ask a court to declare him dead. Then she would be eligible to collect his checks and receive widow's benefits...
Signed Document. Last April, having waited the proper time, Mrs. Michaels took her case to a Chicago judge who declared Michaels dead. Mrs. Michaels then returned to the SSA office to get her money. After a two-month delay, an SSA official told her: "Your husband is alive. That's all I can tell you right now." Mrs. Michaels demanded to know more. The SSA refused, citing HEW section 1306 that forbids anyone to look into anyone else's personal file. Mrs. Michaels was sent a form letter refusing any claim for her husband's benefits, which...
...important set of data previously unused will be that supplied by the Social Security Administration. The SSA has used a random sample of 1 per cent of all people registered with it to collect data on migration according to personal income, age, race and marital status...
...corrupt Third Republic, rabid French anticlericalism had turned the church into an intellectual ghetto. At the school itself, a narrow-minded empiricism ruled out serious study of spiritual matters. One day, as Maritain walked hand in hand through a Paris park with his Jewish girl friend Raïssa, the two vowed that if they could find no meaning to life beyond the merely material, they would commit suicide within a year...
Scorn. That despair suddenly dissolved when they heard lectures at the College de France by Philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theories of creative evolution exalted the spirit of man and his ability to find basic reality through intuition. Then, in 1905, Jacques and Raïssa, now newlyweds, happened into a life-changing friendship with Novelist Léon Bloy, a wild, irascible spirit and passionate Catholic who preached to his smug culture that faith and social conscience were inseparable. "Money," Bloy once wrote, "is the blood of the poor." Both of the Maritains were baptized as Catholics...