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From: "Kevin J. Crean" <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-SLIGO] SSDI & Isabella Brown
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:37:02 -0400




I am not on an expert on this topic either, but, here in the U.S. in order to
obtain any type of employment a person is required to obtain a social security
card with a number. This number is used to track the person's earnings for tax
purposes and credit history. Social security taxes are withheld from paychecks.
After reaching a certain age social security checks are issued to retired
workers. It is not a welfare program that only poor people pay into or take
advantage of. This is, of course, an overly simplified explanation of an
extremely complicated system. However, since the Social Security system was
developed in response to the Great Depression of the 1930's, a person may not
appear on the SSDI for many reasons, as I understand it. He or she may have
died before the system was implemented. Like most benefits, it may not have
covered all workers at the beginning but expanded overtime as government
programs do. Many women and men did not work outside the home and so may not
have applied for a social security card of their own. Today, all newborn babies
are immediately registered and receive a social security number.

Lastly, I believe that the SSDI website itself indicates that far less than 100%
of those people who should appear in the datbase are in fact included.






"Jim McDonald" <> on 08/08/2000 09:09:05 AM

Please respond to "Jim McDonald" <>

To:
cc: (bcc: Kevin J. Crean/CPD/NYN/HUD)
Subject: Re: [IRL-SLIGO] Isabella Brown



Paul,
The information is for a friend in Sligo. Thanks for replying. I'm still
unsure about SSDI. Apart from being dead how does one qualify to be on it?
Is this only a list of people who were not well off and in receipt of some
sort of benefit?
Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Burns" <>
To: "Jim McDonald" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [IRL-SLIGO] Isabella Brown


> Jim,
> When people reply privately to public queries, the rest of us don't
know
> what they said. I am answering on the assumption that nobody has
responded,
> although I am no expert on research in the USA.
> The SSDI began sometime in the 1930s (1937 maybe), but even if a
person died
> after it began they would not be registered with it unless they were
members of
> SS or a related program. Or the subject of your query died earlier. If she
died
> in New Jersey, I believe the death would be listed not only with the
county
> officials but with the state as well.
> As to retrieving this information without an approximate date, surely
> someone else on the list can comment. I have no experience.
> Paul Burns
>
> Jim McDonald wrote:
>
> > Born in Sligo the year 1874 Isabella DYKES emigrated to New Jersey where
she
> > married ? BROWN. She doesn't appear on the SSDI. Would she be recorded
> > somewhere else?
> >
> > Jim McDonald
> >
> >
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