The first check written under the Social Security Act of 1935 in the U.S. was issued in this year.
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January 31, 1940. Check number 00-000-001 was issued to 65-year-old Ida May Fuller of Vermont, a legal secretary who had once been a schoolteacher. She said she filed after dropping by a Social Security office on Nov. 4, 1939, because, "I was paying for something called Social Security and I wanted to ask ? about it."