{"id":15763,"date":"2026-01-31T00:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=15763"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:55:45","slug":"first-social-security-check-was-issued-in-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=15763","title":{"rendered":"First Social Security Check Was Issued in 1940"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First Social Security check was issued in 1940<\/strong>. Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont, received check 00-000-001 for $22.54. She lived to the age of 100. Today over 64 million people receive Social Security checks. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/history\/imf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/history\/imf.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Social Security check was issued in 1940. Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont, received check 00-000-001 for $22.54. She lived to the age of 100. Today over 64 million people receive Social Security checks. Children can learn more at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/history\/imf.html.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5255,5253,5254,5246,2640,1176],"class_list":["post-15763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5255","tag-first-social-security-check","tag-ida-may-fuller","tag-january-31","tag-ludlow","tag-vermont","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15763"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21864,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763\/revisions\/21864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}