[plain talk]

I’m still getting my Social Security check and FDR has been dead a long time. Government programs don’t die easily. :-)

[Nateman]

90 years as of today. Trump just signed a Social Security bill and mentioned that.

[frank ballenger]

Here is the story of the first recipient. Note that the “experts” planned the system’s financing saying “There is no reason to expect that more than a handful of people will live beyond the age of 65.”
Life expectancy average was 62.9 years and for women only it was 65.2 years at that time.

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Ida May Fuller was the first person to receive monthly Social Security benefits. She received her first check on January 31, 1940.
Ida May Fuller was a legal secretary from Ludlow, Vermont. She had been paying into the Social Security system for just under three years before she retired in November 1939 at the age of 65. She only paid a total of $24.75 in Social Security taxes. Her first check was for $22.54. Fuller lived to be 100 years old, dying in 1975, and collected a total of $22,888.92 in Social Security benefits throughout her lifetime.

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In 1960, the average monthly Social Security payment for retired workers was $81.73.