The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, September 16, 1980-Page 3 ONE IN SEVEN GET LUMP SUM OF $255 Study exam iesdeath benefts WASHNGTON (AP)-A General Accounting "ffice slidy indicates that one worker in seven who dies colbcts nothing more from Social Security than the $255.ump sum death benefit The other six or their survivors get back more than they pail in Social Security taxes, the GAO found. THE GAO, A research and auditing arm of Congress, issued a short report on the lump sum death benefit, which the Carter administration proposedin 1979 to do away wih. Social Security has paid more than $6 billion in death benefits since 1940, including $332 million on Jehalf of 1.3 million workers or retirees who died in 1978,.the GAO noted. The agency studied a raniom sample of 1,078 of the death benefits paid in 197t It found 822,or 76.3 per- cent, went to person who had gotten Social Security while living. Their average age at death was 74. THE 256 OTHERS, who were not on the Social Security rolls, died at age 50 on average. But 103, or 9.5 percent, left survivors eligible for Social Security. The remaining 153-14.2 percent-had no survivors eligible for Social Security in July 1979, when the GAO checked the records. - It is possible that some of those 153 left widows or other relatives who might collect Social Security on their records in the future, Elliot Bushlow, a GAO supervisory auditor, said yesterday. THE SOCIAL SECURITY Administration acknowledged the GAO's figures appeared accurate. The agency itself checked death benefits in 1974 and found that for 13 percent of insured workers, the lump sum was the only payment they got back. Some 8 per cent definitely left no survivors, but for 5 percent the possibility remained that a survivor would collect in the future, the agency said. Jim Brown, a spokesman for Social Security, noted those who collect nothing but the death benefit also were insured while they lived against disability and toward retirement. "IF A PERSON doesn't collect, he doesn't need it," said Brown. "That's the whole idea of social insuran- ce." The GAO said the original concept of the death benefit "was to guarantee that individuals covered by Social Security would receive some return on their contributions." The concept has since changed to providing help toward death and burial expenses. ANNUAL COMPETITION FOR OVERSEAS STUDY TO CLOSE SOON The 1981-82 competition for grants for graduate study abroad offered under the Fulbright Program and by foreign governments, corporations, universities and private donors will close on October 31, 1980. Only a few more weeks remain in which qualified graduate students may apply for one of the approximately 511 awards which are available to 52 countries. Most of the grants offered provide round-trip transportation, tuition and maintenance for one academic year; a few provide international travel only or a stipend intended as a partial grant-in-aid. Applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application, and must generally hold a bachelor's degree or its equivalent before the beginning date of the grant and, in most cases, should be proficient in the language of the host country. Except for certain specific awards, candidates may not hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. Candiates for 1981 -82 are ineligible for a grant to a country if they have been doing graduate work or conducting researach in that country for six months or more during the academic year 1980-81., 9 Creative and performing artists are not required to have a bachelor's degree, but they must have four years of professional study or equivalent experience. Social work applicants must have at least two years of profes- sional experience after the Master of Social Work degree; candidates in medicine must have an M.D. degree at the time of application. Application forms and further Information for students currently enrolled in The University of Michigan may be obtained from the Pulbright Program Adviser, Mary H. Jarrett, who is located In Room 160 Rackham. The deadline for filing applications on this campus Is September 29, 1950. Grad student brutally murdered; link to 2 other killings feared (Continued from Page) didn't believe that anyone eard noises Sunday morning. "OUR BEDROOM winow is right there. I can't believe thatwe wouldn't have heard anything i there was noise," Kahn said. She aded, "I have tlat 'mommy radar' thatets me up at the least amount of noise. Another neighbor sai she thinks people might have been onfused about #lihe timing. She explainechat earlier in the morning-about 2 a.i.-she heard s)outs and confusion froi outside. She attributed the witness sports to con- fusion over the exact tir. Dohrman Byers, a rn who lives at the other end of the emplex, said he got up around 4 a.m.ind saw a man wearing shorts jog b. He explained thlat he didn't think aything of it until he saw the man run to car. "Then I saw the ta-lights of the car gh on and saw the ca take off at a fast clip," Byers said. H explained that he couldn't see the man or the car very well but he did notice that the man was about six feet tall and thin. The car was "sporty, maybe like a Trans- Am," he added. WILLIAM HUFF, the murdered vic- tim's father, said, "What we know about the case is what the police have told us-that there's been three of them (murders) in Ann Arbor recently. What else can I think besides the fact that the murderer is a psychopathic killer?" He added that his daughter received a degree in art at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. and was a flight at- tendant for six years before entering the University of Michigan business school. While working as a flight attendant, William Huff continued, his daughter took classes in math at Harvard and Boston Universities. The Ann Arbor Police Department is requesting that anyone who has knowledge of these crimes or anyone who believes he or she is witnessing an assault in progress to notify the depar- tment at 994-2875. The department is also requesting that unescorted females travelling af- ter dark be especially alert for persons following them or for prowlers as they Center for Russian and East European Studies is sponsoring a Colloquium: "Has There Been a Revolution. in Poland?!r' Participants are GITELMAN, PRAVDA, SZPARLUK Wednesday, September 17 arown-eag ENERGY PLUS+FUEL SAVINGS -HAPPENINGS FILMS Cinema Guik-Ivan the Terrible (Pt. 1), 7,9:05 p.m., Lorch Hall. MEETINGS Women in Cnmunications-7 p.m., Welker Room, Union. GEO-genell membership meeting, 8 p.m., MLB 3. Research (ub in Language Learning-4 p.m., East Conference Rm., Rackham. Society of nristian Engineers-Luncheon Meeting, noon, League. Bicycle Cb-1084 E. Engineering, 7:30 p.m. Human Stuality Office-7:30 p.m., 814 Monroe. MichiganL-5 Society-Meeting for space colonization, 7:30 p.m., 4202 Michigan ion. SPEAKERS Deparient of Geological Sciences-Prof. V. J. Wall, "The Structural, .Metamephi, and Lithological Setting of Broken Hill (N.S.W.) Minerapation", 4 p.m., C. C. Little. Ann irbor Democratic Socialist Organization Committee-Michael Harrinton, noon, 602 E. Huron. Hispnic American Student Services-Emma Navajos di Ritting, "Puerto Rico: ulture and History," 8 p.m., Rackham East Conf. Rm. Int(national Center-Prof. Alan Whiting, "Prospects for Peace in Asia," 12 p.t. MAC-C. A. Patrides, "The Art of the Acropolis," 1408 Mason, 4 p.m. Cbmistry-Colloquium, G. 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